NORTH LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A 13-year-old girl was killed Monday night in a shooting in North Lauderdale, the Broward Sheriff’s Office confirmed Tuesday.
The shooting was reported around 10:22 p.m. near the 7400 block of Southwest 12th Court. A Local 10 News crew was at the scene as BSO deputies and fire rescue personnel were outside a house near Silver Lakes Middle School.
According to BSO, deputies responded to the scene and found a girl, later identified as Samyiah James, suffering from a gunshot wound.
Authorities said deputies immediately started life-saving measures until North Lauderdale Fire Rescue responded.
James was then airlifted to a local hospital, where she died at 11:31 p.m.
“Once the family was in my yard -- and they were screaming. I was asking, ‘What’s wrong?’ They’re like, ‘They shot my daughter,’” one resident who lives in the area said.
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Neighbors told Local 10 News reporter Saira Anwer that James doesn’t live in the neighborhood, but was visiting a friend when she was shot.
Family members of James told Local 10 News that she was supposed to start 7th grade on Tuesday at Cypress Run Middle School.
“I did a hear where a pop happened, and then I heard swerving off, like a car,” one woman said.
BSO Homicide Unit detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting.
Anyone with further information is asked to contact Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS (8477).
Local 10 News Photojournalist Michael Kaneff and Assignment Desk Editor Wilson Louis contributed to this report.
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