Girl, 11, Paralyzed After Being Wounded In Brooklyn Shooting
A 17-year-old with a lengthy criminal history is under arrest after an 11-year-old girl was shot on a Brooklyn street Friday night. Kane Cooper faces attempted murder and reckless endangerment charges. Police say he opened fire on Gates Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant just before 8:30 p.m. Friday, aiming at two men in front of a building. The shots missed their target and hit Tayloni Mazyck, 11, in the neck. She underwent surgery and is expected to survive, but she is now paralyzed below the neck.
"I'm tired of this," said Robert Mazyck, Tayloni Mazyck's father. "You can't stand in front of your own building? Not only was she standing out here, my 7-month-old granddaughter was right there. What's the matter with people?"
"I have a daughter who's nine, and we live in this Bedford-Stuyvesant community, and I believe that it is an outrage, and the community should be outraged, and we are calling into action the community to mobilize around this incident," said one person at the scene. "When an 11-year-old can get shot in the community when she's sitting outside cradling another child, it's such reckless abandon."
The suspect, who has six prior arrests, was seen on video near the incident and taken into custody about two blocks from the shooting. Police are looking into whether the shooting was gang-related. Doctors are waiting for the results of a CAT scan to determine whether they can remove the bullet from Tayloni Mazyck's body.
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