Jazmine Barnes, still waiting for reward, will be eliminated

The shooter s 39 is stopped near the car early Sunday morning.

A mother was driving four of her daughters to a convenience store to get some juice. The man opened fire, striking and mortally wounding Jazmine Barnes, aged 7, in the car, injuring her mother, LaPorsha Washington, and sending the glass raining on the other children in the car.

The horrendous killings in Houston, on the penultimate day of the year, attracted much attention. He was denounced by Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. And this week, he gained ground after being the focus of writer and activist Shaun King and civil rights lawyer Lee Merritt, who claim to have raised $ 60,000 as part of A private fundraiser for any information that led to the arrest of the suspect.

Authorities described the suspect as a white, bearded man in his forties.

They published a photo of the red pickup truck that they believe he was driving. And they said that a sketch of the suspect, made with the help of Jazmine's sisters, should be released on Thursday.

At a press conference on Wednesday, Gonzalez said that his The office thoroughly reviewed information that had invaded his office after the murder but said he did not know exactly who the gunman was or why he targeted his family.

"We still have no connection with this family," he said, "so it always seems random."

Merritt, who works with Jazmine's family, said he believed the shooting was motivated by racist motives.] "That's why I was brought" he said in a telephone interview with the Washington Post on Wednesday, "We want to emphasize the racial nature of the attack and the fact that hate crime charges are appropriate."

Local activists in Houston have asked the sheriff's office to get answers and publicly asked if the case was racially motivated. A rally is scheduled for Saturday.

"We will not ignore this problem," said Gonzalez. "We continue to focus on the evidence we have and the leads we are developing, and then on the grounds that we can improve and determine once we have these facts."

Merritt and King seek advice from public, that they were passed on to the police. Merritt acknowledged that many of the tips they had received were unlikely to be successful, but stated that he had heard an eyewitness whom he believed credible who had given him details on the truck.

Merritt said that Washington and two of his girls who were injured by shards of glass had been taken to the hospital after the shootings.

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Washington described the heartbreaking shot at KTRK, a subsidiary of the ABC chain in Houston,

"While turning around and looking down the street, I heard shots begin, then they went through my window broke my glass and hit my arm. They flew past us and the truck slowed down and continued to fire as it was before us, "she said. "It was not fair. He intentionally killed my child for no reason. He did not even know her, he did not know who she was. "

She said that one of her other daughters had been the first to see that Jazmine had been hurt.

" She said: "Mom, Jazmine's still. She does not speak. 'I turned around and my 7-year-old was shot in the head,' said Washington. "My baby comes and asks me: Where is my sister? "She's only six years old."

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Merritt said that frustration was growing around the case.

"We believe that [the police] is actively seeking information," said Merritt. "As the days go by, it becomes more and more exacerbated. But this is not a direct criticism of the application of the law, it is exactly where we are in the case. We are not at a happy place in the business.

Another fundraising effort is underway to help Jazmine's family pay for his funeral and other expenses related to his death. Created by her father, Chris Cevilla, she raised more than $ 29,000 starting Wednesday night.

Gonzalez described Jazmine as "a young and beautiful angel with a busy life."

"And we understand that she wanted to be a teacher," he said. "This has been removed. We take this very personally.

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