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MICHAEL NELSON/WITNESS: THEY WERE JUST SHOOTING EVERY WHERE. CHAOS ON RUTLEDGE AND MEDGARS AVENUE TUESDAY MORNING AFTER 10... WITNESSES THOUGHT IT WAS A TIRE BLOW OUT AT FIRST...UNTIL THEY SAW GUNSHOTS FIRED FROM A TAN OR GOLD SUV INTO THIS BLACK SUV... INSIDE WAS A MALE DRIVER, TWO WOMEN PASSENGERS A 13 YEAR OLD BOY WHO WA GRAZED BY A BULLET AND A ONE YEAR OLD GIRL WHO WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD. TOMMY FORD/WITNESSES: ALL OF A SUDDEN I SEEN PEOPLE DUCKING OVER HERE AND A GIRL DUCKED DOWN BY HER CAR OVER THERE ... SAID I AM GOING BACK INSIDE. JPD SAYS IT WAS A ROLLING ONSLAUGHT GUNSHOTS FROM THE ASSAILANTS ... IT STARTED AT RUTLEDGE AND MEDGAR EVERS TRAVELING NORTH AND THEN U-TURNED AND RETURNED TO THE SAME SPOT WHERE IT STARTED. SCOTT SIMMONS/REPORTI NG: SAM DO WE KNOW WHO THEY WERE TARGETING? SAM BROWN/JPD: WE DO NOT KNOW THAT YET THEY ARE LOOKING AT VIDEO SURVEILLANCE FROM DIFFEREN BUSINESSES IN THE AREA TO DETERMINE WHICH DIRECTION TH VEHICLE WAS GOING AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SCOTT SIMMONS: WERE THEY APPARENTLY TARGETING THE MAN OR THE WOMEN INSIDE? SAM BROWN/JPD: THAT WE DO NOT KNOW RIGHT NOW. THE PATTERN OF BULLETS ON THE DRIVER SIDE OF THAT BLACK SUV SUGGESTS THE TARGET WAS THE DRIVER LIONEL WALKER. HE WAS NOT HIT BUT THE TWO CHILDREN IN T BACK SEAT WERE WOUNDED. THE MOTHER OF THAT ONE YEAR OLD GIRL RUSHED HER INTO THIS LOCAL HAIR SALON LOOKING FOR HELP. L.C. SIMPSON JR./WITNESS: THE MOMMA RAN UP IN HERE WITH THE BABY ABOUT 1 YEAR OLD SO THEY HAD TO RUSH THE BABY TO THE HOSPITAL. CASSANDRA DAVIS/WITNESS: THAT WAS VERY SHOCKING TO SEE HER RUNNING IN HOLDING HER ONE YEAR OLD SHOT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD..BLEEDING EVERYWHERE. A SHOCKING HAIL OF GUNFIRE IN A BROAD DAYLIGHT ASSAULT. SAM BROWN/JPD: THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF INCIDENTS IN JACKSON IN THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS AND A LOT OF THEM, AS SAY, THEY ARE NOT RANDOM..IT'S TARGETED. AND 90 PERCENT OF THE TIMES TO 95 PERCENT OF THE THE TIME, THE VICTIM KNEW THE SUSPECT. THAT ONE YEAR LISTED IN CRITICAL CONDITION TONIGHT. THE 13 YEAR OLD BOY WAS SHOT IN THE RIGHT FO

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