6-year-old girl, parents shot after basketball rolls into man’s yard in North Carolina; suspect held

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A North Carolina 6-year-old and her parents were shot Tuesday night by an angry neighbour who fired at them after a basketball rolled into his yard..

The girl's family and the neighbours said the man was shot and a 6-year-old girl was injured after children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into a neighbour's yard...

The suspect, Robert Louis Singletary, turned himself in to authorities in Florida on Thursday, the Gaston County Police Department told CBS News..

The charges against Robert Louis Singletary are four counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill, inflicting serious injury, and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm...

The Gaston County Police Department in a statement said the victims identified in the shooting are William James White and Ashley Hildebrand...

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