Girl, 11, wounded in drive-by shooting while asleep Sunday at Kansas City home
An 11-year-old girl was shot and wounded Sunday night while sleeping in her bedroom at her south Kansas City home, according to police.
Officers responding about 11:15 p.m. to a drive-by shooting in the 8500 block of East 92nd Place heard screaming from a nearby home, according to the Kansas City Police Department.
A woman told officers her daughter had been shot. They found the girl in her bed, covered in blood, and multiple bullet holes in her bedroom, police said. Officers discovered bullets throughout the home.
An officer pulled a cloth off the girl’s arm and realized she had suffered a “substantial wound to her arm that was bleeding profusely,” according to police. He applied a tourniquet to the wound, an act that police said helped saved the girl’s life.
The girl also suffered an injury to her stomach, which was considered not as serious. Another officer applied pressure to that wound.
The child was taken to a hospital in critical condition. Medical staff said the girl would survive. The victim has since been listed in stable condition, according to Capt. David Jackson, a police spokesman.
Kansas City police said the girl was one of numerous people whose lives have been saved by officers using tourniquets. The department’s patrol officers have undergone training through a Truman Medical Center program that began in 2017, police said.
“But the fact we HAVE to save the life of an 11-year-old who was shot in her own bed is despicable,” police wrote on Twitter. “Besides being the ultimate act of cowardice, drive-bys lead to innocent people getting hurt.”
This story was originally published February 24, 2020 at 11:12 AM.
