RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Police in Virginia are asking for the public’s help to identify multiple people they say may have been involved in the shooting death of a 3-year-old boy.
Sharmar Hill Jr. was shot on Feb. 1 while playing outside his family’s apartment in Richmond.
Police arrested one person, Antonio Harris, in a carjacking that happened near where the boy was shot. But they said they need help finding others they believe were involved in the shooting.
“We need more,” Detective Joseph Fultz told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. “There are others involved in this. This is more than one person.”
Fultz said detectives believe there were two groups of people shooting at each other. He said Sharmar was “just an innocent person, little person” struck by a stray bullet.
Harris has not been charged in connection with Sharmar’s death, nor in any of the three other reports of random gunfire in the hours leading up to the fatal shooting. Fultz said at this point, it’s unclear what role he played, if any, in the boy’s shooting, but said he has not been exonerated.
Police are hoping to locate multiple shooters and others who might have witnessed the exchange of gunfire. He urged any witnesses to come forward.
“Do it for the little kid and do it for his family,” he said.
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