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10-Year-Old Girl Shot In Cheek In Fort Worth; Police Investigating

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FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - Fort Worth police are investigating an incident where a 10-year-old girl was shot in the cheek Saturday evening at East Berry Street near Hatcher Street. The girl was rushed to Cook Children's to have surgery.

According to police, the incident started when a vehicle pulled up the girl's family as they were leaving Kim's Food Mart. A person in the car started a fight and things escalated from there.

Police said the person in the vehicle rushed to a car wash across the street from the girl and her family and grabbed a gun.

According to police, the person with the gun returned to the food mart and fired multiple shots. One of the shots hit the 10-year-old girl in the cheek.

Police are still determining whether the gun came from another vehicle across the street or another person.

Police were not able to provide a description of the suspect or the vehicle.

Authorities are investigating to see if anyone else was involved and if anyone in the girl's family was targeted by the suspect.

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