I wanted to post about Alexis Goggins, seven years old:
A 7-year-old-girl is being hailed as an “angel from heaven” and a hero for jumping in front of an enraged gunman, who pumped six bullets into the child as she used her body as a shield to save her mother’s life.
Alexis Goggins, a first-grader at Campbell Elementary School, is in stable condition at Children’s Hospital in Detroit recovering from gunshot wounds to the eye, left temple, chin, cheek, chest and right arm.
“She is an angel from heaven,” said Aisha Ford, a family friend for 15 years who also was caught up in the evening of terror.
The girl’s mother, Selietha Parker, 30, was shot in the left side of her head and her bicep by a former boyfriend, who police said was trying to kill Parker. The gunman was disarmed by police and arrested at the scene of the shooting, a Detroit gas station. Police identified him as Calvin Tillie, 29, a four-time convicted felon whom Parker had dated for six months.
Unfortunately I’m not writing very well right now. I’ll cite some posts I’ve read, and ask anyone who hasn’t seen the story to please take a look.
Thanks.
Quote via: Would You Do What Alexis Goggins Has Done? at Problem Chylde.
A call for action:
Alexis Goggins, What we can do for her, at All About Race.
More coverage:
7 year old takes 6 slugs for mama, at The Unapologetic Mexican.
EDIT: And I support the 16 days of activism against gender violence campaign, which is drawing to a close today.
So many of the blogs I read are working on the campaign, and the message has been very powerful.
