4-year-old boy shot, killed 3-year-old girl
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4-year-old boy shot, killed 3-year-old girl
A gathering today of neighbors, friends and strangers left a lot of
people shaking their heads in disbelief that a 3-year-old girl had
died a day earlier in a noon-hour shooting at her family’s home.
A few expressed anger that a handgun left on a kitchen table was
picked up by a 4-year-old boy, who might have saw it as a toy gun when
he pointed it at Aunesti Lee Allen and fired at her head.
At the afternoon gathering outside the family’s Near-Westside home in
the 200 block of Sheffield Street, relatives of the girl’s mother,
Fiona C. Lee, criticized police. They arrested and jailed the 26-year-
old on Thursday night on child neglect and drug charges.
“They’re (police) giving false information, and we want the community
to know our sister won’t be able to go to her own daughter’s funeral
unless we can get her out of jail,” said sister Shafaun Lee, 22. “She
can’t even grieve comfortably. This was an accident.”
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Investigators seek father, boy
Investigators continued to search for the boy and his father, Curtis
J. White Sr., 24. The father, who is Lee’s boyfriend, came to the home
he shared with her and their children shortly after the shooting and
accompanied Lee and her children to the hospital. But he left the
hospital before police could talk to him.
The mother was upstairs taking a shower while the boy, the girl and
two other children of Lee were downstairs, where a .45-calibre handgun
sat on a counter in the kitchen. The owner of the handgun was unclear,
police said. The mother told investigators that the children have
played with toy guns and the boy might have though the gun wasn’t
real.
“The boy picked up the gun, pointed it at her head and pulled the
trigger,” said Lt. Jeff Duhamell, a spokesman for the Indianapolis
Metropolitan Police Department.
Aunesti Lee Allen died at Riley Hospital for Children a few hours
later.
Lee’s other two children — a 4-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl —
saw the shooting. Police said the frightened children ran to a
neighbor’s house.
Mother faces preliminary charges
The mother was arrested for felony neglect in connection with the
fatal shooting. Lee had told IMPD detectives that she left a handgun
in her home where her children could reach it.
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A gathering today of neighbors, friends and strangers left a lot of
people shaking their heads in disbelief that a 3-year-old girl had
died a day earlier in a noon-hour shooting at her family’s home.
A few expressed anger that a handgun left on a kitchen table was
picked up by a 4-year-old boy, who might have saw it as a toy gun when
he pointed it at Aunesti Lee Allen and fired at her head.
At the afternoon gathering outside the family’s Near-Westside home in
the 200 block of Sheffield Street, relatives of the girl’s mother,
Fiona C. Lee, criticized police. They arrested and jailed the 26-year-
old on Thursday night on child neglect and drug charges.
“They’re (police) giving false information, and we want the community
to know our sister won’t be able to go to her own daughter’s funeral
unless we can get her out of jail,” said sister Shafaun Lee, 22. “She
can’t even grieve comfortably. This was an accident.”
• INDY-AREA CRIME: Get a roundup of metro-area crime stories and
latest court case developments.
• TRACK THE SIRENS: Follow a real-time feed of all police, fire and
ambulance dispatches in Marion County.
Investigators seek father, boy
Investigators continued to search for the boy and his father, Curtis
J. White Sr., 24. The father, who is Lee’s boyfriend, came to the home
he shared with her and their children shortly after the shooting and
accompanied Lee and her children to the hospital. But he left the
hospital before police could talk to him.
The mother was upstairs taking a shower while the boy, the girl and
two other children of Lee were downstairs, where a .45-calibre handgun
sat on a counter in the kitchen. The owner of the handgun was unclear,
police said. The mother told investigators that the children have
played with toy guns and the boy might have though the gun wasn’t
real.
“The boy picked up the gun, pointed it at her head and pulled the
trigger,” said Lt. Jeff Duhamell, a spokesman for the Indianapolis
Metropolitan Police Department.
Aunesti Lee Allen died at Riley Hospital for Children a few hours
later.
Lee’s other two children — a 4-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl —
saw the shooting. Police said the frightened children ran to a
neighbor’s house.
Mother faces preliminary charges
The mother was arrested for felony neglect in connection with the
fatal shooting. Lee had told IMPD detectives that she left a handgun
in her home where her children could reach it.
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