He fired because he had "seen shadows" on his property. A man shot and wounded a teenage girl in the head in the southern United States while she was playing hide and seek with other children, local police said. The facts took place this Sunday in Starks, a town in Louisiana near the border with Texas, said Tuesday in a statement the sheriff's office of Calcasieu County.
Officers found that a 14-year-old girl "suffered a gunshot wound to the back of the head." She was taken to hospital for "non-lethal injuries". Investigators learned that several youths were playing "hide and seek in the neighborhood and hiding on a neighbor's property," police said.
Incarcerated shooter
Questioned by investigators, David Doyle explained "seeing shadows outside his house" and went to get his gun inside. The 58-year-old then "went back outside and watched people run off his property, at which point he started shooting at them and unknowingly hit the girl," the sheriff's office said. He was taken into custody and charged with several charges, including aggravated assault with a weapon.
This news item is part of a recent tragic succession of banal interactions that have degenerated into bloodbaths in the United States. In April, a 20-year-old woman was shot and killed in New York State after mistakenly driving down the driveway of a private home. That same month, in Texas, a man opened fire on cheerleaders after one of them tried to open the door of her car, which she had mistaken for her own vehicle. And a black teenager was shot and seriously wounded after making the wrong house in Missouri.
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