11-year-old girl shot and killed while sleeping over at grandmother's
Two people, an adult and a minor, are in custody, police said.
An 11-year-old girl was sleeping over at her grandmother's home when gunfire erupted outside, shooting and killing her, authorities said.
The young girl "was murdered while attending a sleepover with her grandmother in our community," Detroit Police Chief James White told reporters. "Making TikTok videos and laughing one minute and being shot in the back ... the next."
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Two people are in custody -- one adult and one minor -- following Saturday's shooting, which took place around 10:15 p.m., Detroit police said.
No one besides the 11-year-old was struck when the shots rang out, police said.
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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan told reporters, "When you can have an 11-year-old girl in a home with her grandmother and five other children as young as the age of 7, dancing joyously in the house, and have a bullet come through and kill her -- it hits you very hard."
The police chief blamed "irresponsible gun ownership" and "irresponsible use of a weapon."
"It is of epidemic proportions right now in our country and in our city," he told reporters.
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The 11-year-old's name has not been released.
"Our deepest condolences go out to the victim’s family and friends at this unimaginable time," the Detroit Police Department tweeted.
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The little girl's death came amid another weekend of mass shootings in the U.S. Three people were killed and many others injured when multiple people opened fire on a Philadelphia street, and at least three people were killed with others injured in a mass shooting outside a Chattanooga, Tennessee, nightclub.