Jamyla is on the far left in the picture above.
FERGUSON • A 9-year-old girl doing homework on her mother’s bed was killed when someone fired shots into a Ferguson home Tuesday night, according to police and family.
Jamyla Bolden’s grandmother said she ran into the bedroom after someone opened fire about 9:30 p.m. Jamyla’s mother was hit in the leg. Jamyla was fatally wounded.
“I was holding her the whole time,” the grandmother said of the child Wednesday. She did not want her name used because she feared for her safety.
“I kept holding and holding her,” the grandmother told the Post-Dispatch. “I still have her blood on my hands. She was still breathing. I was telling her to just breathe.”
Police were called to the home in the 9200 block of Ellison Drive and “two officers tried desperately to keep the little girl alive,” according to a Ferguson city news release, but the girl died later from the gunshot wound.
The girl’s mother, 34, was taken to a hospital where she was treated and released, according to authorities.
On the same day Jamyla Bolden was murdered, our friend DeRay, was too busy inciting riots over the police shooting a man who aimed a gun at them, then paying attention to Jamyla.
Her life matters.
Their lives mattered:
