For the second time, an apartment where some of George Floyd’s family lives has been targeted by terrorists, with a child a victim of the violence. Arianna Delane, a four-year-old niece of murder victim George Floyd, was shot New Year’s Day when her family’s apartment was peppered with gunfire in an incident which Houston Police called a “targeted shooting,” ABC News reports.
The girl was in a second floor apartment bedroom at the front of the building when bullets game through the front of the residence. “My daughter jumped up and said, ‘Daddy, I’ve been hit,’ and I was shocked until I seen the blood and I realized my 4-year-old daughter was really hit,” the girl’s father, Derrick Delane said. Arianna was shot in the torso. Her family drove her to a nearby hospital where she is in stable condition.
Police have not identified a suspect or suspects in the shooting, although they said it appears the apartment was intentionally fired into. The apartment was a target of another attack in April 2021, as the family gathered to watch the verdict of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was announced in televised coverage.