Girl Killed in Hartford Shooting Lost Father to Gunfire Years Earlier

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https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/girl-killed-in-hartford-shooting-lost-father-to-gunfire-years-earlier/3019334/

Janet Rice headed to the hospital Thursday night, as she routinely does when tragedy befalls her community. A barrage of gunfire had injured several young people, including a 12-year-old girl struck in the head by a stray bullet.

While en route, Rice's phone rang. She pulled over.

The young girl in a Connecticut hospital fighting for her life was her granddaughter -- the child of the son Rice lost to gun violence more than a decade earlier.

The girl, Se’Cret Pierce, died Friday morning. She was 2 years old when her young father, Shane Oliver, 20, was killed in the fall of 2012 only a few miles from where his daughter was shot.

Having a son gunned down brought sorrow and despair to the family. Now a granddaughter had perished, too.

“Never in a million years did I expect to respond to a call for my 12-year-old granddaughter,” Rice, a crisis response specialist, said in a text message Sunday.

“I am ANGRY, HEARTBROKEN, and NUMB,” she texted.

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Such tragedy

[flying_wahini]

1. Another senseless act takes another innocent life. Just Heartbreaking.

[progressoid]

2. OMG.

I can't even imagine.