Family speaks after girl, 3, shot in Southwest Detroit

Lumia Ghaleb, 3, was shot in Southwest Detroit on Sept. 8, 2017.

DETROIT - A 3-year-old girl who was shot while inside her grandmother's house in Southwest Detroit continues to recover at the hospital Saturday.

Lumia Ghaleb was hit in the shoulder after Detroit police said people in three cars started shooting on Ogden Street. Her parents have been at her bedside since she arrived at the hospital.

"A lot of pain, because she's always active and smiling," said Khaled Ghaleb, the girl's uncle.

Khaled Ghaleb was in the basement of the house and his nieces and nephews were upstairs.

"Like 10 to 15 gunshots," Khaled Ghaleb said.

Video shows three cars racing down the block, and police are looking for the people inside them.

"One bullet came in through the double doors and hit the wall right there," Sal Ghaleb, the girl's cousin.

"I just ran up and didn't even check the window," Khaled Ghaleb said. "I just said, 'Get down.'"

The children in one room got down, but his niece, Lumia, was already down, having been pierced by the bullet that came through a double pane window.

"My uncle grabbed her, and we just held her shoulder," Sal Ghaleb said.

The bullet went through Lumia's shoulder. Her family is grateful that's all it hit.

"It could have been anywhere. At this height, it could have been her head, her heart, her chest, but thank God it didn't hit that," Sal Ghaleb said.

As Lumia recovers, her family hopes someone will help police find the people in those cars.

At the end of the day, it's only innocent people that are affected by this," Khaled Ghaleb said.

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