Girl, 6, hurt when shots are fired at family's car in Hazelwood

HOMESTEAD, Pa. — A man, woman and two children were found inside a bullet-riddled vehicle Tuesday night on Amity Street in Homestead, after the car had been shot several times in Hazelwood.

Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Sonya Toler said a plainclothes detective first spotted the victims' vehicle with multiple bullet holes visible just before 8 p.m. speeding in the 100 block of Imogene Street in the city’s Hazelwood neighborhood. She said the detective followed the vehicle to Amity Square near the Dave & Buster’s restaurant at the Waterfront, where the vehicle pulled into a parking lot.

Inside the car, the detective found a man suffering from what appeared to be a gunshot wound. Toler said Munhall paramedics took the 26-year-old man to UPMC Mercy where it was determined there was shrapnel in his back. She said he was treated and released.

The woman, Jasmine Gordon, and two girls who were also in the car were not hit by gunfire, but they were checked for possible scratches from the broken glass. %

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One of those girls, who is Gordon's 6-year-old daughter Jenisis, suffered several cuts to her face from shattered glass.

"I realized that my daughter was bleeding, so I took off my seatbelt and I hopped on her and her friend," Gordon told Channel 11's Jennifer Tomazic on Wednesday. She said the group had just left a home in Hazelwood when they turned onto Imogene Rd. and two people started shooting at them from a white Ford Explorer.

Gordon posted an emotional video on Facebook moments after the shooting, with the hopes of sending a message to the shooters.

"They shot up my car with kids in it. Please I'm begging you," she said in the video.

"...whoever it is, is my friend on one of my social media sites, and there ya go. I want you to relive what you did every couple minutes."

Gordon said she did not believe her car was the intended target.

No arrests have been made.

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