DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. -- An 8-year-old girl was shot with a stray bullet while riding in the car with her dad this morning.
“She could have been killed. Thank God it hit her buttocks and not her head,” witness Wanda Scott was there and rushed to the girl's side.
Scott said she took the girl into her business nearby and applied pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding.
The girl was caught in the cross fire between a Dodge Charger and blue sedan in a scene that played out just after 9:40 a.m. in the 3300 block of Clifton Church Road. DeKalb Police said a white Dodge Charger was seen driving recklessly in the area.
At some point, the blue sedan began to chase the Charger and a passenger in the passenger in the sedan began firing at the Charger causing it to lose control and veer into oncoming traffic, according to police.
Witnesses say the two raced through a nearby gas station parking lot and then up Clifton Church Road.
The Charger struck the black Nissan Altima that was carrying the girl and her father head-on. Their car was was not involved in the chase or shooting, according to police.
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After the crash, police said the blue sedan continued to fire shots at the Charger, striking the 8-year-old inside the Altima.
“The guy was out of his car. His whole body was up out of the car randomly shooting. I mean we could have been walking to the store like we do sometimes anybody could have been shot," Scott said.
Police also said a male and female jumped out of the Charger and and ran away. Two black boys described as juveniles drove away in the blue sedan.
The little girl was hit in the hip and was rushed to a local hospital with injuries that are not life-threatening.
Police have not made any arrests and officers used K9 units to help search the area hours after the shooting.
11Alive's Joe Henke is finding the latest details on the story. Watch 11Alive at 5 p.m. to hear from witnesses.
Henke spoke with a witness who said the girl that was hit by the bullet kept asking "am I going to die?"
Wanda Scott said she held 8 year old who was shot by stray bullet. Girl kept asking "am I going to die?" She put pressure on the wound and stayed with the girl until an ambulance arrived. #11Alive https://t.co/wc2FmSScPP pic.twitter.com/ZnIDR6yx8Z
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"A peace came over me just to calm her down and to save her. I can't even imagine having my child being shot," she said.
