MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee police are investigating five shootings overnight on New Year’s Eve — one of which left a seven-year-old girl injured.
Seven-year-old Kiara Hudson spent New Year’s Eve at her aunt’s house near Congress and Green Bay Ave. She and three other kids had just finished dinner and were watching TV. That’s when a round of bullets were fired into their room.
The bullets narrowly missed Hudson’s aunt, Johnnie Reese and the three-month-old baby she held in her arms.
Bullets ricocheted off the walls, missing Reese’s nephews by inches. Hudson was grazed by a bullet on her left cheek.
“I didn’t know if she was shot in the face or grazed in the face or what. She ran to me and I held her on the floor and I grabbed the phone off the couch and called 911,” Reese said.
Hudson was taken by ambulance to Froedtert Hospital where she received stitches and was released.
This incident was the little girl’s second brush with death.
“At the age of three, she was in a house fire and she was pronounced dead of smoke inhalation. It took them about 10 minutes, but they revived her,” Reese said.
Reese said she doesn’t know whether the shooting was random or whether the suspects mistook Reese’s residence for a neighbor’s. However, she said she is starting her New Year with gratitude that her niece was spared.
Hudson is staying with a cousin. She did not want to go back to her aunt’s house after the shooting.
Reese just moved into the residence and says she plans to leave because her niece and nephews are too scared to visit.
No suspects are in custody in connection with this shooting.
