A 14-year-old girl in Texas was allegedly gunned down by a classmate of hers — with cops saying he shot the teen two times in the back as she tried to run away from him and two more times after she fell to the ground — following a verbal dispute on their school bus.
“He went home, put on all black, put on a black mask, and came back and called my baby’s name and he shot my baby four times,” Anaya Zachary’s godmother, Sonya Stanford, told local NBC affiliate KPRC last week about the girl’s shooting death on March 21 in the city of Baytown, which is about 25 miles east of Houston.
“She tried to turn around and run and he shot her twice in the back,” Anaya’s cousin, Janet Zachery, told the ABC affiliate KTRK. “And then when she fell, he shot her two more times,” Janet said.
The 13-year-old suspect, who has not been identified by police due to his age, allegedly got into a heated disagreement with Anaya on their school bus earlier in the day. The children attended Baytown Junior School, part of the Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District (CISD).
Stanford told local CBS outlet KHOU that the boy allegedly threatened Anaya before the shooting.
“I was told that he told Naya, ‘When I get out the bus, I’m going to kill you today,’” Stanford alleged. She said that after getting home from school that day, Anaya asked her if she could go outside to see her “little sister” and play at a playground in their apartment complex.
“She never told me about an altercation or anything,” Stanford recalled.
Joseph Zachary, Anaya’s father, told KHOU that the details surrounding the altercation between his daughter and the shooter are not clear at the moment.
“They’re telling me it’s a school thing, I’m not sure what it is,” he said. “But I know I came here yesterday and my child was dead laying in the parking lot.”
Discussion about this post