Kearria Attison, 5, Killed in Drive By Shooting **Enhanced Reward up to $4,000**
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On Monday, April 6th just after 4pm, a 5-year-old girl was fatally shot in an exchange of gunfire between two groups Monday afternoon in the Highlands area of the Northside.
The grandparents of the victims said the 5-year-old girl, Kearria Attison, and her 4-year-old sister, Paris West, were sitting in a car with their mother outside a convenience store on Monaco Drive at De Paul Drive just after 4 p.m. when the shootout happened.
Assistant Chief Brian Kee, with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, said investigators learned there was an argument that turned into a physical fight between two groups of people and the fight escalated into gunfire.
When the two groups began shooting at each other, according to Kee, the 5-year-old girl, who was in the backseat of the car, was struck by gunfire and the 4-year-old, who was also in the backseat of the car, was injured by some of the debris.
“We don’t know what started the argument, but it, unfortunately, led to led to some gunfire with innocent children in the middle of it,” Kee said. “The children were absolutely innocent. Who they were with were not part of this argument, fight, anything. They were completely innocent and, unfortunately, right in the middle of the gunfire.”
The 5-year-old was taken to a hospital in critical condition and died there, her grandparents said. Mayor Lenny Curry said he was told by the Sheriff’s Office that the child was shot in the head.
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