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ALONG WITH HER FATHER ... HE TELLS US SHE IS A BRAVE LITTLE GIRL, HE HOPES POLICE FIND WHOEVER DID THIS. A BLACK EYE AND A BANDAGE ON HER FACE ? THIS HILLSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT IS RECOVERING AFTER BEING THE VICTIM OF A DRIVE-BY SHOOTING WITH A BB GUN. <CLIP 54 27:50-27:52 I MEAN IT'S SO CLOSE TO HER EYE.> <BUTTED TO> <CLIP 54 28:00-28:04 WORDS CAN'T EVEN DESCRIBE ANYTHING THAT I FEEL I'M JUST SO SHOCKED.> HER FATHER, NATE SWEENEY SAYS SO FAR, DOCTORS HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO REMOVE IT. <CLIP 54 26:00-26:05 AND IF THEY DO HAVE TO TAKE IT OUT IT'S GOING TO HAVE TO BE PROBABLY SURGICALLY REMOVED.> THE YOUNG GIRL DID NOT WANT TO SPEAK ON CAMERA ? BUT SHARES WITH US WHAT HAPPENED WHILE SHE WAS WALKING HOME FROM SCHOOL IN THE AREA OF BRIDGE AND ASHLAND STREETS. <CLIP 80 55:08-55:18 I THOUGHT SOMEONE THREW A ROCK AT ME SO I LOOKED UP AND I WAS GOING TO YELL AT THEM BUT THEN I SAW BLOOD AND I REALIZED THAT IT WASN'T A ROCK.> SHE WAS WALKING WITH A FRIEND WHO WAS HIT IN THE LEG ? BOTH GIRLS ARE EXPECTED TO BE OKAY, BUT NOW POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR THE VEHICLE INVOLVED ? <CLIP 41 16:51-17:01 WITNESSES ON SCENE REPORTED THAT IT WAS AN OLDER 2-DOOR GOLD TOYOTA WITH TINTED WINDOWS AND POSSIBLY A BLACK DIAGONAL STRIPE ALONG THE BACK OF IT.> POLICE SAY THERE WERE THREE PEOPLE IN THE CAR, ALL ABOUT 16 OR 17 YEARS OLD, THE DRIVER IS DESCRIBED AS A LIGHT-SKINNED HISPANIC MALE WITH SHORT DARK CURLY HAIR. SWEENEY SAYS HE WANTS WHOEVER DID THIS TO KNOW THEY COULD HAVE BLINDED HIS DAUGHTER. <CLIP 54 28:27-28:33 SHE'S TOUGH KID I SAID STAY HOME TOMORROW AND SHE SAID I WANT TO GO SCHOOL AND I SAID ALRIGHT.> LUCKILY THAT GIRL SAYS SHE'S NOT IN MUCH PAIN AT THIS POINT

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Two teenage girls are recovering after police said someone shot them with a BB gun while they were walking home from school Thursday.One of the girls was hit in the face, the other in the leg.>> Download the FREE WMUR app“I mean, it's so close to her eye,” said Nate Sweeney, the father of one of the girls, whose injury left her bandaged and with a black eye. “Words can't even describe anything that I feel. I’m just so shocked.”Sweeney said that, so far, doctors haven't been able to remove the BB.“And if they do have to take it out, it's going to have to be probably surgically removed,” he said.Sweeney’s 14-year-old daughter did not want to speak directly on camera but talked about what happened while she was walking home from school in the area of Bridge and Ashland streets.“I thought someone threw a rock at me, so I looked up and I was going to yell at them, but then I saw blood, and I realized that it wasn't a rock,” she said.The girl was walking with her 13-year-old friend, who was hit in the leg.Both girls are expected to be OK, but police are searching for the vehicle involved.“Witnesses on scene reported that it was an older, two-door, gold Toyota with tinted windows and possibly a black diagonal stripe along the back of it,” said Sgt. Matt Barter, of Manchester police.Police said there were three people in the car, all about 16 or 17 years old. The driver is described as a light-skinned Hispanic boy with short, dark, curly hair.As of Friday morning, no arrests have been made in this case.Sweeney said he wants whoever did this to know they could have blinded his daughter.“She's a tough kid,” he said. “I said, ‘Stay home tomorrow,’ and she said, ‘I want to go school,' and I said, ‘All right.’” Anyone with information is asked to call Manchester police at 603-668-8711.