she s the little girl who won the heart of a big city. they called you the miracle baby. why did they call you that? yay shot in the head at point blank range there was a pillow and it had blood on it. as she fought to live, this detective vowed to catch whoever left treated today. soon, he turned up a promising lead. in the hospital she battled back. to know that she had survived was a pretty powerful moment. not just her body but her mind. they come in the daycare and erica said don t let them heard me. investigators found what could be a vital clue but could it be enough to crack the case? hello, welcome to dateline. i m craig melvin. it all started with a crime that not even police could believe. a little girl. just a toddler. shot in the head, deliberately. left for dead by a killer who, then, disappeared. but a detective vowed to crack this case, no matter how long it took. one of the biggest attractions at the louisville zoo was a floppy you
i m pretty cynical, so i was not and nexgard chews from your vet. not sure what the long term effect was going to be. one year after erica was left for dead, reporter jesse holiday made a house call to erika s grandparents house. a checkup of sorts. with eric up being so young and with her grandparents raising her there was so much interest to begin with, we wanted to go back to see how she was doing. erica had jessie at hello. that s all it took for the high-spirited then debris-year-old to win over the cynical reporter. erica was in it from the very beginning, she was trying to write with my pen, she wanted to color on my notebook. i was struck by her curiosity. jessie reported that eric a loss all sight in her right eye, she also had a small scar on her chin where the bullet hit her head and exited. people wonder how she survived. i still wonder how she survived.
never dwelled on if she wasn t going to make it. now the family had to turn its focus to the one who did not make it. erica s mom, aaron. on may the 25th 2006, a week after she was gunned down, aaron s family gathered for her funeral. and the man who delivered the eulogy was none other than the officer who had raced erica to the hospital. steve kelsey who also served as a minister in a local church. it was so moving and personal because he had been on the scene. but where jessie holiday who had been a crime reporter, what elevated the story was simple, little erica, the public concern from the very beginning was always that there was a two-year-old involved. after nearly two weeks in the hospital, erica was well enough to move to nearby fraser rehabilitation institute. the hard work was just