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CTV News
3 days ago
- CTV News
Hamilton police make arrest in murder of innocent bystander
Harsimrat Randhawa, a 21-year-old international student from India, was fatally struck by a stray bullet while waiting for a bus in Hamilton on April 17. An arrest has been made in the shooting death of a Mohawk College student who police say was caught in the crossfire of a 'violent altercation' in Hamilton that involved multiple vehicles. At around 7:30 p.m. on April 17, police said Harsimrat Randhawa, a 21-year-old international student from India, was fatally struck by a stray bullet while waiting for a bus near the intersection of Upper James Street and South Bend Road. Police said the victim, who was not involved in the altercation, had just left a local gym and was heading home when she was hit by a single bullet during an exchange of gunfire between two groups. Speaking at a news conference on Thursday, police said shortly before the gunfire erupted, a dispute had broken out in the area. 'It had been going on for a few minutes and then had culminated with the shooting that happened when she arrived there,' Acting Det.-Sgt. Daryl Reid told reporters Thursday. On Aug. 5, police said 32-year-old Jerdaine Foster was arrested in Niagara Falls in connection with the deadly shooting. He faces one count of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted murder. 'Investigators know that there were at least seven people involved in this argument, this dispute, that resulted in the death,' Reid added. He said investigators are still working to identify the other suspects who were there that day. 'The investigation is still ongoing and we will do everything in our power to identify, locate, and arrest all of these people that are involved,' Reid said. 'We do believe there are more people out there with information that we need to know.' The accused, Reid noted, has ties to Halton, Hamilton and Niagara, and moved around though short-term rentals in the regions. Police would not provide any information about what may have led to the dispute between the two groups. 'The motive behind that dispute, that is a major part of the court process,' Reid said. With files from the Canadian Press
CBS News
5 days ago
- CBS News
Girl grazed by stray bullet as she was sleeping, Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office says
An investigation is underway after a girl was grazed by a stray bullet early Wednesday as she was sleeping, the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office said. At about 3:15 a.m., deputies responded to the incident in the area of NW 69 Avenue and NW 173 Drive. When they arrived, deputies learned the juvenile girl was asleep when a stray bullet grazed her around her lower extremities, according to the news release. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded and treated her at the scene. The sheriff's office said no suspect information is available at this time. The MDSO Northwest General Investigations Unit has taken over the case.
Yahoo
21-07-2025
- Yahoo
Brooklyn woman shot in buttocks from stray bullet on way to market: ‘Right now, I'm in pain'
It could have been worse, but for a Brooklyn woman struck by a stray bullet while on her way out to shop for groceries, it was bad enough. 'I heard the shot and felt it,' said Vivette Morris, 65, who was shot in the buttocks on July 13 as she pushed a shopping cart outside her home in East Flatbush. 'I thank God it didn't hit me in the head and kill me.' Morris, who lives in the Flatbush Gardens housing complex, was on her way to a Nostrand Ave. meat market to pick up something for Sunday dinner when shots suddenly rang out around 10 a.m. near Foster and Brooklyn Aves. Cops said the shooter fled in a black BMW east on Foster Ave. No arrests have been made. The victim was an unintended target, police said. Cops recovered 10 shell casings from the scene as they investigated the shooting. 'I heard multiple shots, and I was trying to get out of the way — and when I got hit I still heard shots firing,' Morris said. 'There were kids in the courtyard. The kids don't know what's going on. The government has to look into it.' Medics rushed Morris from the scene to Kings County Hospital. Doctors there told her the bullet cracked a bone and she will need to use a walker to get around. Doctors haven't taken out the bullet and are expecting it to eventually come out on its own, Morris said. 'God was covering that lady,' said a neighbor who came to Morris' aid after the shooting. 'She had a shopping cart. She was going to the store, just going on about her business, and then that happens.' 'I went over there to help her,' the neighbor said. 'It seemed like the bullet ricocheted off her. She was crying and me and this other man tried helping her up. I told her she's going to be fine, there's no blood. But I can't imagine the mental pain that woman was in.' That same day in Queens, a frightened mother woke up to find that a stray bullet had whizzed through her Jamaica home. The 68-year-old woman said the shot, meant for somebody else, shattered the first-floor window of the two-family house where she lives with her son. 'I'm scared, and I'm worried,' said the mom, who noted that her son was up and about around 2 a.m. when the bullet penetrated the window and a couple walls. 'It's very bizarre,' she said. 'It could have been a direct hit to my son. My son may not have been alive today. I don't know, I don't have any enemies. I don't know where this would come from.' After the bullet came through the window, it traveled about 20 feet and pierced two walls. 'I saw a hole going through my wall,' she said. 'Between the wall in my place and bedroom there is a staircase that goes upstairs. I went upstairs to see what was there, then I saw the exit part of the hole and another entrance of the hole going into the bedroom.' 'When my son — he goes to bed late — was in the kitchen at the time, he said he heard two bangs,' she said. 'He did duck down. He said when he heard the shots that it was close and it drew his attention but he didn't look through the window to see what was there.' Nearly 24 hours earlier, Dwayne Belfield was fatally shot in the chest near Liverpool St. near Glassboro Ave. in South Jamaica. Video obtained by ABC Channel 7 Eyewitness News showed a dark-colored BMW slow down at the intersection as the killer unleashes a hail of bullets from the back seat before the luxury car speeds off. Belfield ran several feet before collapsing on the sidewalk about 8:15 a.m. July 12. It was unclear if that slaying is connected to the Brooklyn stray-bullet shooting, but both shooters escaped in a dark-colored BMW. On April 29, 17-year-old Coney Island teen Tamari Carmona was fatally shot in the head at the Flatbush Gardens complex and died a week later. In that tragic death, three men dressed in black confronted Carmona and one of them pulled out a pistol and opened fire, striking Carmona in the head before all three ran off toward New York Ave. 'He was pretty much brain-dead the whole time,' Tamari's cousin Kaliyah Serrano, 21, said after his death. 'We all spoke to him, told him how much we loved him, told him that he's a fighter, that he could fight this. We prayed for him.' The stray bullet shooting happened days after the NYPD announced that New York City had recorded its fewest number of shooting victims in three decades — and the second-lowest murder rate — in the first half of 2025.
Daily Mail
13-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Adorable girl, 3, is killed after attending July 4 party with family as cops finally arrest suspect
A three-year-old Washington DC girl has died after she was hit by a stray bullet while sitting in a car watching Fourth of July fireworks. Honesty Cheadle was taken off life support on Monday, days after she was rushed to the hospital in the early morning hours of July 5, her Great-Uncle Raymond Cheadle told WUSA 9. She had been in the car around 3am with her father when she was struck in the upper body by the bullet outside his apartment. She was then rushed to the hospital in critical condition. Larry then carried his little girl up three flights of stairs because he 'didn't know what to do,' her aunt Tonia told the The Washington Post. The little girl was being dropped after being taken to a cookout party, she told the outlet. After two days on life support, little Honesty succumbed to her injuries. 'This child didn't bother nobody,' Raymond told WUSA 9. 'She didn't deserve to get hit.' Raymond said Honesty's parents are in shambles after losing their baby girl, especially the father. 'That baby was his world, the baby's mother was his world,' the great-uncle said. 'And it's just sad y'all took that from them, from us.' The shooting occurred as striking their car, shattering the window as fireworks rang out nearby. Charles Rucker, 24, of DC, was arrested on Friday for the shooting and police believe he targeted the family's car, NBC Washington reported. He fired multiple rounds into the car after approaching and then ran off. The other occupants of the vehicle were unharmed. 'This seemed to be an intended shooting. It was not one where we believe at this time that there were other individuals that were being sought at that time,' Chief of Police Pamela Smith said. Rucker has been charged with first-degree murder and it is unclear what his relationship to the family is at this time. 'This arrest is a testament to the diligent and hard work of our police officers and detectives that has occurred around the clock over the past week,' Smith said. The family started a GoFundMe to help pay for funeral expenses. The little girl was remembered for her 'innocence' and for being 'full of light, personality, and so much promise.' 'We were not prepared for this — emotionally or financially — and are now facing the painful responsibility of laying our baby girl to rest without any insurance in place,' her aunt Tamika Butler wrote.
Yahoo
06-07-2025
- Yahoo
2-year-old boy hit by stray bullet Saturday night while watching fireworks
A two-year-old boy watching fireworks was shot by a stray bullet following a clash among juveniles in an eastside Detroit park on Saturday night, Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison told members of the media in a livestreamed press conference. The toddler sustained minimal injuries and will survive, Bettison said. He said that during "some type of altercation" among juveniles a block away at a park July 5, shots were fired and struck the toddler. Saying he was "appalled" and "upset" by the incident, Bettison pledged to step up its enforcement of the city's curfew. The curfew prohibits children aged 15 and under to be out without an adult between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., and prohibits teens ages 16 and 17 to be out unsupervised from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. More: 2 suspects charged in fatal shooting at Detroit's Skinner Playfield "Just the fact that we have a lot of unsupervised juveniles at a park, and understand that it's the holiday weekend, understand that folks are watching fireworks, but at the same time parents still have the responsibility to know where their children are and that they are supervised," he said. Bettison said the department has detained two persons of interests in the incident, though details were still preliminary at the time of the news conference. Contact Lily Altavena: laltavena@ This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Boy, 2, hit by stray bullet Saturday night while watching fireworks
