'I just knew I had to my babies away, that's all I was worried about,' she said.
Among those injured in a mass shooting that took place in Philadelphia's Kingsessing neighborhood on July 3 was a young family.As the suspected gunman 40-year-old Kimbrady Carriker fired dozens of bullets, this family was caught at the wrong place, wrong time.
Octavia Brown told Action News her 2-year-old son By-Kir was shot three times during the mass shooting incident.It happened while he, his twin brother Jy-Fir, and his mother were driving at the corner of 56th Street and Chester Avenue."I just seen someone with a mask, a vest, and everything standing in front of my car. He had a big gun," said Brown."I just knew I had to my babies away, that's all I was worried about. Protect them," she recalled.
"I just remember screaming, yelling, like 'My babies! My babies! Please help me, my babies, I think they were shot,'" she said.The horrified mother fainted once she and her family arrived at the hospital."By-Kir had three shots to his leg, they went straight through," said Brown. "He does have bullet fragments in the left leg. He won't walk, he won't bend his leg.
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