A North Carolina man allegedly shot and wounded a six-year-old girl and her parents after children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into his yard, according to neighbours and the girl’s family — another in a string of recent U.S. shootings sparked by seemingly trivial circumstances.
Gaston County Police Chief Stephen Zill said at a news conference Wednesday that his department and the U.S. Marshals Service’s Regional Fugitive Task Force were conducting a broad search for a 24-year-old man who fled after the Tuesday night shootings near Gastonia, N.C., a city of roughly 80,000 people, west of Charlotte.
The suspect is
