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"Come down," she shouted to the other three girls that she could not protect in the back seat. Shots from a nearby van broke his driver's side window.
Jazmine Barnes was killed when a man in a red or brown pickup truck stopped near Washington and opened fire in the unprovoked shootout, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office. The murder broke a Texan family, traumatizing a sister who witnessed it and incited the search for the suspect.
Washington, 30, sobbed and told these terrifying moments to reporters from a hospital bed. She is recovering from a gunshot wound at Ben Taub Hospital in Houston.
"Whenever I wake up, I want it to be a dream," CNN Washington, 30, said Tuesday. "I want to wake up and see my 7 year old get through the door and give me a hug and a kiss."
"This was not right"
Authorities still investigate a motive for the shooting, which occurred in northeastern Harris County around 7 Sunday hours. Washington and his daughters are black. The suspect is described as a white, bearded man, perhaps in his forties.
"We think that it was totally unprovoked, no matter what it was, and that we are not neglecting anything.We will leave all the possible motivations," the sheriff of the Harris County, Ed Gonzalez.
He adds: "There is nothing to indicate that the family made any mistake whatsoever, they were only driving on the service road when it was come."
The sheriff swore to find the shooter and said he hoped "his conscience was gnawing at him".
"We are very committed and we will not give in. We are extremely upset about this." Said Gonzalez.
Gonzalez stated that the authorities could not say if this man was shouting anything to the victims during the shooting.
Washington said the family was up early because his mother, who was visiting, woke them up early to start breakfast. They were also preparing for Sunday dinner. The coffee break before sunrise was in a convenience store. They were still in their pajamas.
Washington was struggling to find a reason for the shooting. She said that she did not cut the van. "I did not provoke it in any way," she said.
"I stopped at a red light and continued, and shots were fired in my car," she said in an interview with reporters on Monday. , told CNN affiliate KTRK.
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" He deliberately killed my child for no reason. He did not even know her. He did not even know who she was, "she said, according to KTRK.
" Mom, Jazmine does not move "
She remembered that the truck had accelerated to put in front of them and the shooter kept firing.
"The shots went through my window. They broke me the glass. I do not even know how my baby was shot, "she said, according to KTRK.
A girl who called her siblings after the shootout realized that Jazmine was not answering
"She said," Mom, Jazmine does not move, she does not speak, "said Washington.
"I turn around and my 7 year old son was shot in the head," Washington told KTRK newspaper.
Washington stated that she did not have tinted windows and that she believed the shooter could see "it was a mother, a black mother with four beautiful children, girls, in this car ".
Washington said his daughter was lovely. She would kiss her mother and plant kisses on her to wake her up, Washington told CNN.
"She would tell you how good you feel, she would tell you how beautiful you are," she says.
"Where is my sister?"
Jazmine's teachers at Monahan Elementary School "love him so much," said Washington. And she wanted to be a teacher, like them, she told her mother a week ago.
"That's what she wanted," Washington sobbed. "She did not even have the opportunity to live her life."
Washington urged the gunman to surrender. "Be a man and surrender yourself," she said.
According to Gonzalez, Jazmine's sister, aged 6, was hit by shards of glass, then treated and released. But her scars are deeper, according to her mother.
"My baby comes and asks me," Where is my sister? Does it go? "" Washington told KTRK.
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