MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Police are looking for suspects following a deadly shooting in the Foote Homes housing project.
According to authorities, the 15-year-old girl was shot and killed just after 11 p.m. Sunday in the 300 block of Vance Avenue near Danny Thomas Boulevard.
Several hours earlier, police said they broke up a fight between several females armed with bats in the same area.
A male showed up at the hospital a short time after that, saying he was caught in the middle of a fight at Foote Homes and shot in the arm.
People who live at Foote Homes said the 15-year-old girl who was shot several hours later was sitting on top of an air conditioning cage when a car drove by and someone started shooting.
Angela Price heard the gunfire, came outside, and saw the teen face down on the ground between two buildings.
“It was very sad. I was looking at her like it could have been my child. That is why I was trying to comfort her. That could have been my child, anybody’s child,” said Price.
The girl later died at the hospital.
Police said the shooter was in a gray or silver Infiniti.
They’re asking anyone who knows or saw something to call Crime Stoppers at (901) 528-CASH.
Foote Homes is the city’s last remaining public housing project.
Residents there are in the process of being moved out and the area will be redeveloped.
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