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Kennedy Maxie was shot on Dec. 21. She succumbed to her wounds on Saturday
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A 7-year-old Georgia girl shot in the head while out Christmas shopping with her family last week has died, WSB reports.
Kennedy Maxie was riding in a car with her aunt near Phipps Plaza in Atlanta’s toney Buckhead district on December 21 when shots rang out, according to the aunt, who said she didn’t realize the girl had been hit until noticing she wasn’t feeling well in the back seat.
The aunt drove her to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite, where she died on Saturday, according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Atlanta police have said they believe the girl may have been hit by a stray bullet fired when two groups of men got into a dispute in the Saks Fifth Avenue parking lot at the mall.
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7-year-old girl shot in Atlanta after Christmas shopping dies Kennedy Maxie, 7, succumbed to her injuries days after she was shot in the head by a stray bullet while riding in a car following Christmas shopping with her family. (Source: GoFundMe) By Associated Press | December 28, 2020 at 4:51 AM CST - Updated December 28 at 4:51 AM
ATLANTA (AP) - A 7-year-old girl who was shot in the head by a stray bullet after Christmas shopping with her family in Atlanta has died, marking another fatality in a city suffering from a spike in gun violence.
Kennedy Maxie succumbed to her injuries Saturday night, the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office told news outlets Sunday. The young girl had been in critical condition since she was struck while riding in a car Dec. 21 near the popular Phipps Plaza mall in the city’s Buckhead neighborhood.