Hayward girl, 10, shot - family calls cops later

A 10-year-old girl was wounded when someone sprayed her Hayward home with gunfire early Thursday, but her family didn't notify police for more than five hours, police said.

The shooting happened at a home on the 27000 block of Tampa Avenue about 2 a.m. Someone opened fire from outside, and gunfire shattered the rear window of a car parked out front, while other bullets went into the home. One round struck the girl in the buttocks as she was sleeping, said Hayward police Sgt. Mark Ormsby.

For reasons still unknown, the family didn't call police until 7:30 a.m., Ormsby said.

The girl suffered a non-life-threatening wound. Investigators said a motive is unknown and they are trying to determine whether the home had been targeted or if its occupants could have been the victims of mistaken identity.

"These cowards came out in the middle of the night and fired aimlessly at this home," Ormsby said. "We want to bring justice to what they did. What they did was a cowardly act."