6-year-old shooting victim's last words: "Are you OK, Daddy?"

[Robb]

Vigil held for slain 6-year-old

Tiana was shot in the back as her father tried to carry her away from the gunfire. Tyrell Ricks Jr. fell to the ground after the bullet passed through Tiana’s body and hit him, said their cousin, Whittney Allen Jackson, who was talking with them in the driveway when the gunfire broke out.

“She asked her dad, 'Are you OK, Daddy?' ” Jackson said.

No one initially knew the girl had even been wounded. Tiana stopped talking, started to gasp and her face turned ashen. Her grandfather, Tyrell Ricks Sr., picked her up and took her inside the garage, where a woman who lives next door performed CPR until paramedics arrived.

The girl and her father were taken to the hospital. She died just after midnight. Ricks Jr. was released from the hospital Monday.

Read More: http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/moreno-valley/moreno-valley-headlines-index/20130909-moreno-valley-6-year-old-shooting-victims-last-words-are-you-ok-daddy.ece

[Electric Monk]

1. tragic

[msanthrope]

2. I really, really think some people suck. nt

[In_The_Wind]

3. May she rest in peace. Her life was over before she had the chance to live.

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[snagglepuss]

4. So tragic.

[Robb]

5. Kicking. I'm sure that all DUers would agree

... That it is a terrible tragedy that is beyond partisan disagreement.

[hack89]

11. I certainly agree. What a tragedy. nt

[otohara]

16. Another "terrible tragedy"

I for one am sick of labeling murder by guns tragedies.

USA #1 in tragedies ... LOL

[Rex]

6. That breaks my heart.

[hrmjustin]

7. Locking-Consensus of hosts that this does not fit the SOP and is a local crime story. Very tragic

story.

[hrmjustin]

8. Unlocking and kicking.

[wild bird]

9. Such a tragic loss of a beautiful little girl.

RIP Tiana.

[SidDithers]

10. DU rec...nt

Sid

[Starry Messenger]

12. k&r

[Eleanors38]

13. Very sad when any child dies.

[liberal_at_heart]

14. I think we as a society and as a species owe our children an apology for not putting their interests

first in so many ways; education, gun violence, public assistance, the environment, and war. We are a selfish species. I am sorry Tiana.

[Robb]

15. This. How did we so profoundly lose sight of our priorities as human beings?

[kelliekat44]

17. This makes me cry. nt