Bullets ripped through the basement windows of a St. Paul home Wednesday night, cutting short a 16-year-old girl’s life and injuring two other teens.

The family of Sadeya Hall, of St. Paul, is convinced she was not the intended target of the shooting at a friend’s home in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood.

“It’s really tragic because she was an innocent person and her life is gone,” said a cousin of Hall’s, who declined to give her name, as the family gathered to mourn the girl.

Hall was at the home of a 17-year-old friend on Case Avenue, near Edgerton Street, when the shooting happened about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday.

A number of friends were hanging out in the basement, said the father of the 17-year-old, who did not know how the shooter approached. He said he didn’t hear a car in the alley next to the home and his dogs hadn’t barked at passers-by.

Officers responded to a report of gunshots in the 500 block of Case and found three people injured — Hall was pronounced dead at the scene and paramedics took two others to Regions Hospital. The other victims are the 17-year-old girl who Hall was visiting and an 18-year-old man.

Police have not provided information about their conditions, but the 17-year-old’s father said the girl underwent surgery and is doing OK.

Police Clips, based on scanner traffic, posted that a woman reported her daughter was shot in the back and a male was shot in a leg. The female victim was said to be in a house and shots came from the alley and through the window, according to Police Clips.

The case does not appear random, said Sgt. Mike Ernster, a St. Paul police spokesman. Police have not announced arrests.

Homicide investigators are interviewing witnesses and working to determine what circumstances led to the incident, Ernster said.

Family friend Darnella Wade knew Hall since she was a baby. She remembered her as fun and outgoing, but said the girl was deeply affected by the sudden death of her little brother nearly four years ago.

On the day the family moved to a new home in 2013, the 8-year-old boy tried to sit down to play a video game when a large television fell on top of him.

Hall’s mother has now lost both her children, according to the cousin.

“The family doesn’t even words to express to the mother and father, we don’t have words,” she said.

Hall’s homicide is the fourth in St. Paul this year, with three of the cases occurring this week.

Prosecutors charged a man Thursday in the fatal shooting of a man Sunday night on a Dayton’s Bluff street on Hudson Road near Earl Street. A 5-month-old baby also died Sunday after suffering head trauma; a 19-year-old who was baby-sitting him in her Highland Park apartment has been charged with murder.

Violence also upended the life of Hall’s family friend. Wade’s son, now 21, was shot in the head in St. Paul a year ago. He’s gone through seven surgeries and is unable to walk or talk.

Wade has been working to bring attention to the issue of gun crimes, calling for a “black truce.”

“To our dismay, another child has been taken in our city,” Wade said Thursday. “… We cannot allow Minnesota to become desensitized to the taking of lives.”

Wade said she is drawn to the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. when she thinks about what the community needs to embrace: “Darkness cann6ot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”

HOW TO HELP

Police are asking anyone with information about Wednesday night’s homicide to call them at 651-266-5650.

A fundraising site has been established for Sadeya Hall’s family at www.gofundme.com/burial-for-sadeya-hall