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MODESTO -- A family home is now the site of a tragedy.

Loved ones lit candles around a picture of 13-year-old Brisa, a girl who was shot dead -- her 15-year-old brother wounded. Her family was too grief stricken to speak on-camera, but they told FOX40 she just finished eighth-grade at Mark Twain Middle School and was a beautiful, loving spirit.

Neighbors who we broke the news to recalled hearing gunshots just hours before.

"Yeah... that was like a big gun,” Modesto resident Danielle Arias said.

The Modesto Police Department said the siblings were outside their home on Pelton Avenue around midnight on Monday when a car pulled up.

"After a short conversation, the passenger produced a gun and fired several shots,” Modesto police Officer Martin Lemus said.

The girl died at a hospital. The boy was wounded but will be OK. Investigators have no suspect description, no motive, no reason why this happened.

"We don't have any information as to why the shooting occurred. We don't know if it's gang related. We don't know if it's a random act of violence,” Lemus said.

Detectives are now hoping the sole survivor will be able to shed some light on the violence that took his sister.

"Detectives are currently on the case. I'm sure they are trying to get information, as much information as they can, from him,” Lemus said.

If you have any information regarding this shooting, call the Modesto Police Department at (209)572-9826 or Crime Stoppers at (209)521-4636.

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