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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/02/04/9-year-old-shot-while-selling-girl-scout-cookies/22876259/

INDIANAPOLIS — A 9-year-old selling Girl Scout cookies in Indianapolis was shot and wounded Tuesday, police say.

Sinai Miller was with her two younger sisters near their home when a car passed by and fired shots. One of the bullets hit her in the leg. She was initially hospitalized in stable condition, and later returned home.

Sinai's family said she has been asking: "What did I do wrong?"

"They walked outside the door, and they didn't even get to make it across the lot and then the shots start ringing out," Mark Chandler, boyfriend of the girl's mother, told WXIN-TV.

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Buy cookies from Girl Scout hit by stray bullet

Indianapolis police officers were dispatched to the Retreat Cooperative apartments just after 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. Investigators on the scene said witnesses reported seeing a person's arm sticking out the window of an SUV and firing a gun indiscriminately.

There were children playing outside near where witnesses said the gun was fired, and police believe that is when the girl was struck by a stray bullet.

After the shots were fired, the SUV took off, police said.

Officer Christopher Wilburn, a spokesman for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, said detectives do not think the shot was meant for the child.

Said Deborah Hearn Smith, CEO of Girl Scouts of Central Indiana: "We cannot complete our mission to build girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place when they are afraid to play in their own neighborhoods."

Police were looking for a blue Ford Expedition, WXIN said.



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This happened about 5 miles from where I live...

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Be careful, Flan. Frightening to think you cannot even step outside of your home without worrying about being shot..... What a world...

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Poor baby!

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Oh my, that poor little girl. I hope they catch the idiots who shot her.

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That is terrible. Hope they find this scum and put them under the jail.

But I have a question. Other than the title, it says nothing about selling cookies. It says they were outside and others were playing. I was thinking they were at a store and got shot by the title.

Not that it matters, just "thinking out loud".

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Actually she was on her way to the apartment clubhouse to pick up the cookies so she could start selling.

But the title is more dramatic that way...

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So this is not the whole article? Cause I don't see that either.

Not that it matters of course.

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flan327 wrote:

This happened about 5 miles from where I live...

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That's scary, flan. Be careful out there. 



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lilyofcourse wrote:

So this is not the whole article? Cause I don't see that either.

Not that it matters of course.

I think I read the more detailed article in our local paper. It said that she was so excited about picking up her cookies to sell. She talked about it in the morning & when she got home from school.

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Blankie wrote:
flan327 wrote:

This happened about 5 miles from where I live...

flan

That's scary, flan. Be careful out there. 

I've lived in our house for 26 years. The neighborhood has gone way downhill.

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lilyofcourse wrote:

That is terrible. Hope they find this scum and put them under the jail.

But I have a question. Other than the title, it says nothing about selling cookies. It says they were outside and others were playing. I was thinking they were at a store and got shot by the title.

Not that it matters, just "thinking out loud".

Yes, I see your point.   I thought she was knocking on doors and some homeowner shot her.  So, this  is more of a random bullet on the chance of you being outside at the wrong place at the wrong time.  However, I never let my kids sell door to door.  I HATE selling crap.  I simply bought whatever I had to buy to get the leaders off my back and just gave them away.  I don't think anything is learned forcing my kids to sell, sell, sell for every freaking thing!  (Can you tell I HATE selling?)  lol 



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tLady Gaga Snerd wrote:
lilyofcourse wrote:

That is terrible. Hope they find this scum and put them under the jail.

But I have a question. Other than the title, it says nothing about selling cookies. It says they were outside and others were playing. I was thinking they were at a store and got shot by the title.

Not that it matters, just "thinking out loud".

Yes, I see your point.   I thought she was knocking on doors and some homeowner shot her.  So, this  is more of a random bullet on the chance of you being outside at the wrong place at the wrong time.  However, I never let my kids sell door to door.  I HATE selling crap.  I simply bought whatever I had to buy to get the leaders off my back and just gave them away.  I don't think anything is learned forcing my kids to sell, sell, sell for every freaking thing!  (Can you tell I HATE selling?)  lol 

 That's my take on it as well. DH thinks it's a type of gang initiation...shoot a stranger.

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