'Found the bullet in her sippy cup': 5-year-old girl shot through the leg during rush hour 'road rage incident' by man trying to hit her dad, cops say

A 20-year-old antheral successful North Carolina allegedly opened occurrence connected a father driving successful unreserved hr postulation with his 5-year-old daughter successful the backmost seat, sending a slug done her limb that past got lodged successful her sippy cup, according to police.

"What an representation that is," Aubree Allison, the victim's aunt, told section NBC affiliate WRAL.

"It's thing that you anticipation happens successful your ain life," she said.

Charles Stevenson Jr., of Raleigh, is facing felony charges of battle with a deadly limb with intent to kill, inflicting superior wounded and discharging a firearm into occupied spot for the alleged "road rage incident," according to WRAL. He was primitively facing a complaint of battle with a deadly limb with intent to termination but section prosecutors chose to upgrade it by the clip Stevenson appeared successful tribunal connected Wednesday for his enslaved hearing.

"One of your charges was dismissed arsenic being recharged successful a antithetic way," Wake County Judge Margaret Eagles told him, according to The News & Observer. "At this time, you're going to beryllium held with nary enslaved connected this charge."

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Stevenson is accused of shooting a miss named Ema, whose past sanction is being withheld by media astatine the petition of her family, portion she was riding successful a Ford F-150 with her begetter on U.S. 1 betwixt the U.S. 64 offramp and Cary Parkway overpass connected Monday. The dada allegedly told cops that Stevenson was driving erratically and had gotten into an altercation with different motorist earlier helium acceptable upon the begetter and his daughter.

According to the dad, Stevenson threw an entity astatine the different motorist's car, but it coiled up hitting his F-150. The begetter rolled his model down and began yelling astatine Stevenson, which allegedly prompted him to occurrence a azygous changeable from his gun.

"They recovered the slug successful her sippy cup," said Ema's mother, Gina, in an interview with WRAL. "He was attacking different car, trying to tally her disconnected the road," she alleged.

Ema's reportedly been done aggregate surgeries and volition present request carnal therapy.

"Another driver's reckless actions led to this heartbreaking event," a GoFundMe says for her family. "Despite this unimaginable ordeal, she remains successful large spirits and is showing unthinkable spot arsenic she recovers successful the hospital," it adds. "This guiltless small miss did not merit this."