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"It restores my faith in saying everybody is outraged when a child is murdered," she said. "It's not just the family or police. It was people who didn’t know the little girl."
Nikolette was shot and killed in her home Sunday afternoon while in her mother's arms. Police say six bullets punched through the house. Her mother and a man cleaning the carpets were also wounded. The girl's grandmother and other children were present during the incident.
Law enforcement sources say Perez confessed to his involvement in the shooting, but police don't believe he was the actual shooter. He explained to authorities what happened and why they targeted the home, saying it was all connected to the child’s father. Coulter said it the feud was possibly over drugs. The little girl's father was not home at the time of the shooting.
Perez was on probation and has about a half-dozen drug-related convictions. He has been arrested more than a dozen times before.
Krasner added in a statement: “I also join Mayor Kenney in calling on our state and federal officials to take their blinders off, see the destruction happening in communities where poverty is a structural cause of drug addiction and gun violence, and follow the lead of nations that have far lower rates of violence by regulating and limiting access to guns. Every child deserves to grow up without fear or concern about gun violence. Let’s be the people we keep saying we are — a people who treasure our babies — and make that a reality.”
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