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<b>APEX, N.C.</b> — A 4-year-old girl was shot at an Apex home early Wednesday morning.

Before 4 a.m., the Apex Police Department and the Wake County Sheriff's Office responded to a home on Smith Road, close to Ten Ten Road.

Neighbors said they were surprised when they heard several gunshots overnight, and groups gathered in the dark in the front yards of several homes.

Wake County Sheriff Gerald Baker said the girl was in the front room of the home when bullets from a drive-by shooter came into the house. She was taken to a local hospital and is expected to recover.

Baker said at least eight gunshots were fired, and at one point, people inside the home attempted to chase the shooter down the road.

Wake County Sheriff Gerald Baker shares updates on a shooting that injured a child early Wednesday morning.

<p>four years old. So I don't know that anyone else in the house I received in the injury, but I do know that there were additional members in the family members of the house, her mother, uncle, um, several other individuals that were there. Um, I do understand that some of them, I may have one after what they believe was vehicle, vehicle suspected and the shooting, uh, that we're looking into trying to follow up on as well. But you know, we've got a search warrant, we're going to go in and get some additional, collect some additional evidence, uh, and some more witness statements that we're working on. We've got some other leads that we're following up on and as soon as we can get a little bit more and we will be able to share a little bit more with you. The word on a possible motive, no word on a motive yet. Um, you know, when things like this happened, you know, based on our experience, you know, carol narrows it down to just a few things usually uh someone's obviously upset with someone in the house or who they thought was in there and why what that's about. We can speculate what I want, but we'll certainly want to do everything. Uh and I'll probably find out get the answers to that the nature sheriff of right? Because we drive by at this point. Yes, we've got the uh cases there at the as you can see that the market by evidence technicians right there at the tip of the driveway. So there's more evidence we collected inside. So but that's we can tell at this point south. Well fired from the road. Again, nobody heard inside of the child. That's as far as we know at this point. Yes, elaborate. Anyone you said it's here tried go after a suspect vehicle. That that's my understanding again, you know, that's the only reason why I try to not give too much until we can cooperate and make sure that's fast. What, you know, that's a natural reaction. Uh, you know, someone comes to shoot up your home and you know, if you have the bill to some people brave enough to to go try to find out who that was, if they, I feel a lot that they can catch up to or something. And um, it seems like that may have happened here. We're looking into it. That's that shares any reason for anybody to watch out for that suspect vehicle. Well, we're trying to again, trying to get it identified. We can't tell you enough now to be able to uh, to give a positive identification on the vehicle to where we could have a broadcast on. And I look out um, through you guys to help us locate them. So as we gather, that will certainly be getting it to you. So you get all the help we can and locate this vehicle. And the first is responsible for this matter, shooting into this house and entering that four year old child. Sure. Say about the nature of the interest of the child. I think we have heard. Perhaps. I mean, what can you tell? Well, Mhm. You see some process and reason. Oh, all right, Upper body around the head. I'll say that much. But um you know, she's being cared for now and I think all signs. So this is going to make it so reverses versus injury. What's your person? Well, what bothers me most is the fact that we all know uh you know, we got a record number of postal has been issued by my office I'm being sued about and everything else. But my concern is going to always be uh with from January one of This year to April this year, we've given out about 15,000 and they were going through the process. So there are people who well past the qualifications to get them, but at the same time that puts, you know, thousands and hundreds of thousands of guns and our county, uh and they sometimes end up in the wrong hands. And so here we are. So that that's that's gonna always concerned me. It's not much we can do about the Legislature yesterday were I'm standing on the vote and trying to go away with the background checks. So I don't support that. Um because we need every every uh every inch of accountability to who we are, who's going to be having a possession of a handgun on weapons. So I don't know, we should always be able to be accountable and and be able to backtrack who I was able to purchase a weapon here in this state. I don't see how anybody could feeling different about. I mean, it's about accountability is about lives, you know, gun control. We all, you know, everyone has a right, you know, constitution gives us that right. It's like at the moment, um, as much as they try to say that, you know, I was wildly writes about suspending the process long enough for me to get precautions in place with my staff. We didn't stop it. We didn't deny one at all. We were just trying to take the time to keep my staff safe while we continue to serve people through those permits through that office. So everyone has that right. You know, we haven't and no one's trying to take it. Well, we've got to be more conscious and you've got to be more aware of what these girls can do. Uh Everyone should be able to protect themselves in their homes. Well, we as you go out and purchase and make sure that you're getting safe at the same time and making those guns safety where they can't end up in the wrong hands. That that will do my message. Sure. Tell us approximate shots were fired. Well, there were number shots um At least about eight that we can that we can kind of now it could be more in the period Sheriff, some of those shots, vehicles parked out front. That's correct. Right? The question nothing was going on outside of just his car drove. Mhm. My understanding is that was so I mean, there was nothing really going on so of again, that's that's the work we have to do at this point. Put it all together so we can come back to normal, lets you know what happened. So, Okay. Thank you. Thank you. It's going to share all of forget it computer right now. And they came along right when you found him. Well, no, this. Mhm.</p>

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"You know, that's a natural reaction," Baker remarked. "Someone comes to shoot up your home and ... some people are brave enough to go try to find out who that was. It seems like that may have happened here. We're looking into it."

No one else inside the home was injured, he said, and there was no word on a possible motive.

"When things like this happen, based on our experience, someone's obviously upset with someone in the house or who they thought was in there," Baker told WRAL News in an interview outside the home.

Officers were at the scene of a reported shooting in Apex early Wednesday morning.



HUMAN BEINGS AS WELL AND THE MORE TRAINING THE BETTER. HE TELLS US RESPECT AND TRUST BETWEEN THE POLICE AND COMMUNITY MOVING FORWARD IS CRUCIAL. >>> POLICE ARE RESPONDING TO REPORTS OF A SHOOTING. >> Reporter: I'M GOING TO STEP BEHIND THE CAMERA TO SHOW YOU WHAT'S GOING ON HERE. THERE ARE APEX POLICE OFFICERS ALONG WITH SEVERAL COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE. YOU SEE THE FLASHING LIGHTS OUT FRONT ONE OF THESE HOMES HERE ON SMITH ROAD. IT IS NEAR 1010 ROAD. POLICE GOT THE CALL WAS THEN AN HOUR OR SO AGO. THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE IN THE FRONT YARD OF SOME OF THESE HOMES. I AM WORKING TO FIND OUT MORE

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Evidence was collected inside the home and on the driveway, according to the sheriff.

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