EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (KMOX) - A 3-year-old girl has been declared brain dead after being hit in the head by a stray bullet while she slept in her bed in East St. Louis.
Calyia Elizabeth Stringer was asleep in her father's apartment when there was a shooting outside the Roosevelt Homes at 1328 North 44th Street. A bullet when through the window and hit Stringer under her left eye, reports to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
"Doctors told us she was brain dead almost instantly," said the girls aunt Mariesha Samuels, the Post-Dispatch reports. She was taken to Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis and the family has agreed to donate her organs.
"She was an innocent child," Samuels stated.
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Samuels says she and other family members helped take care of the child her entire life after her mother suffered a massive stroke 15 days after giving birth to Calyia. Her mother lost some speech and suffers from some right-side paralysis due to the stroke.
East St. Louis police and the Illinois State Police are investigating the shooting but have not announced any arrests or a description of any suspects.
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