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Four-year-old shooting victim talks to NBC25 from hospital bed
Posted: 06.05.2012 at 5:06 PM
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Miyona Alexander, four year old shot in arm
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SAGINAW -- Saginaw Police are still looking for the person who shot four-year-old Miyona Alexander at the corner of Sheridan and Webber.

The bullet went in and out of her right arm.

Police are hoping technology will help them find the person responsible.

Meanwhile, a very brave little girl heals, while wondering why she was shot.

"I didn't want to get shot," says the four-year-old from her hospital bed at Covenant Healthcare.

She's an innocent girl who's experienced something very few people her age go through.

She turned four-years-old less than three weeks ago.

Her mother, Brenda Brown says, "She said, 'Mama, they shot me, and I didn't even do nothing.'"

Miyona was inside a vehicle driven by her cousin at the intersection of Webber and Sheridan Monday afternoon.

The family says someone, who they do not know, rammed that vehicle in the backdoor keeping the car from driving away.

Then bullets started flying.

"The window was busted," says Miyona.

The cousin tried to protect those inside.

"She told everyone to duck because she heard the shooting and when they got ready to duck, the bullet went through her arm," says Brown.

With blood gushing out of her right arm, Miyona reacted in a very adult way.

"She took her coat and put it over her arm to hold her arm, and I said, 'That was real smart of you,'" says Brown.

The driver called the girl's mother, who could not believe what she was hearing.

Brown says, "It was real devastating when I heard it. I was about to break down. When she called, all she said was that my baby got shot. So I'm like, 'Shot? What's she talking about?'"

A mounted camera caught the shooting.

Saginaw Police sent the footage to the Michigan State Police for it to be enhanced, with hopes of being able to identify the shooter.

The family says it's losing hope in its hometown.

"Our city is slowly dying," says Brown.

The family is frustrated because many people saw this shooting and few are telling police anything.

They want to remind the public, this could have been anyone's daughter, and if it was your's, you would want people to speak up too.

Miyona is expected to go home Wednesday.

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