PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 5-year-old girl riding in the back seat of a car was killed by a stray bullet, and police said she may have been caught in the crossfire of a moving gun battle.
Casha'e Rivers died Sunday morning after being struck in the chest while riding in a vehicle driven by her mother.
"All this attention, I really don't want. I just want to find out who did this to my child," the 22-year-old mother, Alisha Corley, said Monday morning as anti-violence activists rallied outside a relative's home.
Many different shell casings were found near the site in the city's Strawberry Mansion section and at a location two blocks away. That, along with statements from residents, led detectives to theorize that the car may have been caught in a shootout between people in other vehicles.
No arrests had been made as of Monday morning.