An 8-year-old girl was shot dead in St. Louis near a high school event - CNN

An 8-year-old girl was shot dead in St. Louis near a high school event - CNN
(CNN)An 8-year-old girl was killed and three other people were injured in a shooting near a preseason high school football event Friday night in St. Louis, police said.
...The girl is the 12th child or teenager killed by gunfire in the Missouri city since April, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
The girl, two teenage boys and a woman were shot near Soldan High School, police said.
The girl had just attended a football jamboree -- a series of preseason scrimmages -- at the school with the two teens, CNN affiliate KMOV reported.
"The little girl wasn't doing anything wrong," Police Chief Hayden said.
"She was with family when this occurred. Shots rang out. Not sure what particular fight that was going on when shots rang out."
"We just need help from the citizens to solve this," he said.
A former firefighter, Mark Vasquez, told KMOV...He found her unresponsive with a wound to her abdomen, he said.
"You could see the life leaving her," Vasquez said, holding back tears..."
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