George Floyd's niece shot on New Year's. Dad says police didn't arrive until 4 hours after incident.

[RandySF]

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The 4-year-old girl who was shot in southwest Houston on New Year's Day has been identified as the niece of George Floyd, who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. Family identified the child as Arianna Delane.

Her father, Derrick Delane, said their apartment in the 3300 block of Yellowstone Blvd. was hit several times by gunfire just before 3 a.m. on January 1. The gunfire that entered the second story hit the child who was asleep in the front bedroom.

"My daughter jumped up and said, 'Daddy, I've been hit' and I was shocked until I seen the blood and I realized my 4-year-old daughter was really hit," Delane recalled. "She didn't know what was going on. She was asleep.".....

Late Tuesday afternoon, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner launched an Internal Affairs investigation into the department's response time to the shooting. Arianna's father said police didn't arrive until 7 a.m., more than four hours after the time of the incident.

HPD would not give a timeline of events because of the investigation.






https://abc13.com/4-year-old-shot-on-new-years-day-houston-police-southside-shooting-girl/11424462/

[MagickMuffin]

1. This is a huge problem in Texas

People firing off their guns.


I never feel safe anymore on New Year's Eve/day.


We had several guns firing away. I actually screamed into the night to quit firing your guns. It worked for a while, but then continued.




Arianna Delan, I'm so so sorry that your life was cut short the way it was. May your family find solace because they will never find whoever fired the gun.

[robbob]

2. The little girl survived,

thank goodness.

[Klaralven]

3. When did they call 911? Were they all at the hospital from 3 to 7 am?

Father Derrick Delane says he had just come back into his Houston apartment from lighting fireworks about 3 a.m. Saturday when bullets went flying. His 4-year-old daughter, Arianna Delane, was hit in the torso by a bullet as she slept.

“My daughter jumped up and said she had been hit. I seen the blood bleeding, and I grabbed her,” Delane said.

His wife drove the two to the hospital, where Arianna underwent surgery. She suffered a punctured lung and liver and several broken ribs.

https://www.ksla.com/2022/01/05/george-floyds-niece-wounded-new-years-day-shooting/

[MrsCoffee]

4. Although Delane called 911 shortly after the shooting, the police and first responders didn't show

up until around 7 a.m. Arianna’s panicked parents ended up rushing her to the hospital themselves.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kbkke/george-floyd-niece-shot-cops-4-hours-response