A 9-year-old boy was inches away from being hit by stray bullets while sitting in his Fort Worth, Texas, home when a shooting broke out at an apartment complex earlier this month.
In an incident captured on his family’s security camera, Errol Hill ducked for cover as gunshots ripped through his living room. He was sitting before dinner with his two dogs, before the room filled with dust and noise as the bullets hit the wall.
The shooting at the Las Vegas Trail apartment complex in Fort Worth on May 2 injured six people, including four children, ages 3 to 19.
“He went through the wall”, Errol NBC Dallas-Fort Worth. “I thought it was just fireworks, but when I heard the screams I looked outside.”
The boy’s family, who have two other children, said NBC-DFW that he now lives in fear of another shooting and they are looking to move.
“So I made sure he was OK, I came down here to see exactly where they shot, and while I was here I heard all the families downstairs screaming,” said his mother, Mary Jane Gonzales.
A medical assistant, Gonzales helped the six injured people outside her home, including the 3-year-old child who she said was drifting in and out of consciousness.
“It changed our lives forever. We are traumatized,” she said. “I’ve never seen anyone get shot, much less a child.”
Although they are eager to move, the family signed a new lease for the apartment weeks before the shooting.
Gonzales created a GoFundMe page to raise money so the family can “move to a safe location.”
“The fear we felt that night still haunts us, especially our children, who are now afraid to stay in the place we called home for four years,” the page says.
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