There was celebratory gunfire around the city overnight Monday, but the bullets that came into her North Linden house early Tuesday morning, one wounding her daughter, weren't strays. Martini Skiver is sure of it.

Two bullets hit her home on Republic Avenue shortly before 1 a.m. One went through the back door and became lodged in the kitchen wall. The second came through a side window, ricocheting and striking 9-year-old Maniya Cannon, who was sleeping on the floor.

The bullet grazed her daughter's cheek under her right eye, Skiver said. Maniya was treated at a local hospital Tuesday morning and sent home.

"She's going to have a black eye. I'm just thankful it's not more serious.

"I don't think it was a stray," Skiver, 36, said. One bullet, maybe a stray, she said. Not two bullets.

"The (second) gunshot was so loud it woke me up, like it was right next to the house," she said.

Skiver said the shooting might be connected to a male relative who recently was released from jail and was shot about a week or two ago.

The car driven by the suspect in that shooting resembled a vehicle that stopped in front of her house Monday. Before it drove off, someone in the car pointed at the house and told the driver, "That's where (he) lives," Skiver said a relative sitting on the front porch at the time told her.

The family was staying at her sister's house Tuesday. Stiver said her children don't want to go back to the Republic Avenue house, so she will try to find them a new one in a different neighborhood.

The detective on the case could not be reached for comment Tuesday. Columbus police asked that anyone with information about the shooting contact the assault unit at 614-645-4141.

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