The girl's father said she was sleeping when the shooting occurred: 'My daughter jumped up and said, 'Daddy, I've been hit.''
Delane was sleeping in the apartment when someone opened fire just before 3 a.m. Another child and four adults were also in the apartment at the time of the shooting.the incident. They do not have a suspect description or a motive for the shooting in which at least one person fired several shots into the apartment. Though the department did not name Delane, they did confirm a 4-year-old victim was shot in the torso.
"She was transported in a private vehicle to an area hospital where she underwent surgery and is currently in stable condition," the police said. A friend of the family's told KHOU that the girl had a punctured lung, punctured liver and three broken ribs, and that she walked for the first time since the shooting on Tuesday.
Police have been criticized for their response to the incident after Delane's father, Derrick Delane, told that they didn't arrive at the scene until 7 a.m., more than four hours after the shooting occurred. "My daughter jumped up and said, 'Daddy, I've been hit' and I was shocked until I seen the blood and I realized my 4-year-old daughter was really hit," he told KTRK."She didn't know what was going on. She was asleep." Houston police chief Troy Finner said he is opening an investigation into the matter.regarding the January 1 shooting of a 4-year-old female at 3322 Yellowstone Boulevard.
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