Gun Shots That Murdered 8-Year-Old Black Girl After High School Football Game Were Fired By Police, Philadelphia District Attorney Says ‘Near Certainty’
An 8-year-old girl was hit by bullets at a Pennsylvania high school football game in August was fatally shot by Sharon Hill Borough police officers, the Delaware County District Attorney’s office announced last week. District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer says that “initial ballistics analysis” concluded “near certainty” that shots fired by officers killed 8-year-old Fanta Bility on Aug. 27. Stollsteimer said he met with Bility’s family e to discuss the investigation, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Stollsteimer previously says there was a “high probability” Bility was shot by police gunfire. Final forensic results remain unreleased while the three officers who fired their weapons remain on administrative leave. The officers have yet to been named publicly. The district attorney’s office is investigating the officers’ decision to fire their weapon and a grand jury investigation will determine whether charges will be filed.
“The grand jury will hear testimony related to the entire incident that night on Coates Street and will, at the conclusion of its work, issue a comprehensive report as to what happened on August 27th,” said Stollsteimer. The incident took place were responding to gunfire that began on the 900 block of Coates Street, a block from Academy Park High School, after a football game in the Philadelphia suburb.
Three officers located near where people were exiting the stadium when gunshots started and then a car turned down the street in front of the officers, prompting them to start firing their weapons.
“We have concluded that the gunfire, combined with the movement of the vehicle, precipitated responsive gunfire from the Sharon Hill police officers,” Stollsteimer said.
No one in the car was struck by gunfire, however, a 20-year-old female passenger was inured by shattered glass from the police gunfire, according to attorney Bruce Castor, who is representing the family of Bility, the woman and others injured that night.
After a search of the vehicle there was no weapons found. Of the five people shot that night, officials say four were struck by police gunfire. Stollsteimer says Bility’s 13-year-old sister was among those shot and wounded by police. Over than 25 shots were fired on the night of the shooting. Castor said the “vast majority” of the shots were fired by police.
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