Woman, Kids Okay After Shots Fired Into Apartment
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HOLLYWOOD (CBSMiami) - A woman and her four children are safe after someone opened fire on their apartment in Pembroke Park.
The shooting happened around 10 p.m. Monday at an apartment building at 5100 SW 41st Street.
Bullets shattered the sliding glass doors of Tashira Richardson's bedroom where she was sleeping with her four month old.
"When I heard gunshots, the first thing I did was grab my baby," said Richardson. "As soon as I grabbed the baby, that's when the gunshot came through the window and hit the wall. I grabbed the baby and dragged her bed down the hallway."
Richardson said she then went into a second bedroom where her three other children were sleeping and pushed one of their beds up against the wall. Two of the bullets fired into the apartment lodged in a wall in that bedroom, one inches from where the bed had been before Richardson moved it.
"This is my back porch where the gun bullets are on the ground," said Richardson.
Richardson said she's going to move from her second floor apartment because she will not live there in fear.
"I'm not gonna stay here. I'm traumatized. My kids cannot be in an environment like this. It would've hit my boy. He would've been dead. The bullet hit right above his head," said Richardson.
A woman on the ground floor was injured in her right shoulder and hand, she's expected to be okay.
The Broward Sheriff's Office said the gunman shot at three occupied apartments and one unoccupied vehicle.
Richardson said she heard approximately 17 shots and she believes they came from a high powered rifle like an AK-47.
The sheriff's office said they are looking for two subjects who drove off in a Honda sedan.
