A girl who was injured in a drive-by shooting in Halifax’s west end Tuesday night was heading out to get ice cream with a friend.
Jessica Oakley tells CTV News her boyfriend had decided to take his daughter and her 11-year-old friend to get some ice cream around 9 p.m.
Oakley, who was upstairs at the time, looked outside and saw the 11-year-old girl lying on the ground. She says the child had been shot in her lower body.“I helped her, I got her into the house. I flipped her over -- she got shot in her bum -- I flipped her over and started putting pressure on her butt … on the phone with 911 and waiting for them to show up.”“As far as I know, she is doing OK now,” she says.
“We don’t have problems with anybody, we’re pretty calm. We’re grown now. We have families and we have kids.”Halifax Regional Police received a 911 call at 9:19 p.m. Tuesday about shots fired in the 3000 block of Federal Avenue.Police confirm the girl was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.The home and a parked vehicle were also struck by bullets Tuesday night. No one was inside the vehicle at the time.
While no arrests have been made, police said Tuesday evening there was "no immediate threat to the general public, nor any ongoing safety concerns to be aware of."Police say they can’t connect Tuesday’s shooting with any other incidents, but they are concerned about gun violence in the Halifax area.