DETROIT, Michigan (AP) — As the gunman was about to open fire, 7-year-old Alexis Goggins lunged from the back seat of the SUV and threw herself across her mom, crying, “Don’t hurt my mother!”
Six bullets from the 9 mm handgun slammed into Alexis, one piercing her right eye. Two slugs hit her mother.
Alexis’ mother pulled through. But two weeks later, Alexis lies in critical condition, blind in one eye. And to her classmates and many people in this city so depressingly familiar with violence, the little girl is a hero.
“She was trying to save me,” her mother, Seliethia Parker, 30, said.
“My baby is just an angel to her mother. I thought as the mother, I’d be saving my child. I never thought my daughter would be saving me.”
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4 Responses to Girl Who Took 6 Bullets to Save Mom, Hero to All
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Learn punctuation, asshole.
learn to spell you stupid ass.
In Detroit this is not the kind of thing the white news report on.
We here about this Stephen Grant who excuted his fife 24/7. In the jell he is looked on (look there go Stephen Grant he’s a killer) as a hero.But for a7 year-old Who threw yes threw hersled into her mon to save her it’s just a one day thing. Why? She is BLACK. If this would have been a 7 year-old white person it would have been on 24/7 saying HERO HERO AND HERO. I live in Detroit so I no
Nice story, truly – but what has it got to do with “green news, commentary and services?”