Santo Domingo.– Through tears, the girl’s mother nine-year-old who was injured during a shooting in the area Capotillo expressed his daughter’s pain, who still does not understand what happened.
“What do I do, mommy? If I hadn’t left the house, this wouldn’t happen to me,” she said moved Nayribi Altagracia Martínez Monteromother of the minor.
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Martínez Montero spoke between sobs after leaving the hearing room of the Permanent Attention Office of the National District, after the judge Fatima Veloz will postpone until next Wednesday the knowledge of the coercive measure against John Lariel Báez Álvarez (John 42), accused of causing the injury to the girl.
The judge adopted the decision after accepting a request from the lawyer Jessenia Dipitonlegal representative of the minor’s parents, who asked for time to formalize its constitution in the process.
According to her relatives, the girl, hit by a bullet during a conflict between neighbors, will not be able to walk againtruncating his dream of continuing in the group of ballet baton which he attended every afternoon.
According to the facts, the minor was going to her usual class when, in front of her home, a fight broke out between neighbors that began with machetes and ended in an exchange of shots. One of the bullets hit the girl, seriously affecting one of her lungs.
Neighbors in the area immediately took her to the Moscoso Puello Hospitalwhere she remains admitted under medical observation. Although he is out of danger, he continues to receive care to avoid complications.
