5-year-old white girl sitting on grandpa's lap fatally shot by 3 negros

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Family mourns loss of 5-year-old, seeks public's help finding shooters
Nov. 8, 2014

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Before the news conferences, before the prayer circles, Robert Petersen stood alone in the yard and stared at the bullet holes in the Milwaukee house where his 5-year-old daughter Laylah was killed.

He was silent.

Laylah Petersen was sitting on her grandfather's lap Thursday evening when two people approached the house and fired at it numerous times, with one bullet piercing a wall and striking the girl in the head, police said.

The window was scarred with five bullet holes. Four more could be seen in the siding above the window and another below it.

Police have described the shooting as targeted because gunfire was found only on that home, and no others. In such cases, there is the possibility that the shooters had the wrong house.

"It was targeted because the house itself was hit by all 12 shots thatwe believe were fired," Raap said. "As far as motive or who inside the house was targeted, we don't have that yet."

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“They shot the wrong house:” Three arrested & charged in death of five-year-old Laylah Petersen
Updated at 01:01pm, October 20, 2015

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MILWAUKEE -- Nearly a year after the tragic death of Laylah Petersen, on Tuesday, October 20th, Milwaukee police announced the arrest of three suspects -- who have been charged in connection with Petersen's death.

Laylah Petersen would have turned six years old on September 23rd. But her young life was cut short when she was shot and killed by a stray bullet while she was sitting on her grandfather's lap inside a home near 58th and Fairmount on November 6, 2014.

Petersen died at the hospital, as a result of two gunshot wounds to her head. Her death was ruled a homicide.

According to the complaint, 12 9mm casings were recovered from the scene, along with a total of seven deformed bullets/bullet fragments. A Wisconsin Crime Lab analysis of the 12 casings revealed two firearms were used in this shooting.

The three people charged in this case are: 24-year-old Paul Farr, 20-year-old Carl Barrett and 23-year-old Arlis Gordon. Police say Farr and Barrett were arrested on October 14th in Milwaukee. Gordon was arrested in suburban Chicago on October 17th on unrelated charges.
 
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