Jan. 18—A 6-12 months-outdated Miami female struck in a triple shooting on Saturday has died of her wounds.

Chassidy Saunders was a person of three persons shot when anyone opened fireplace at a residence in Model City on Saturday evening. Two older people who have been unrelated to her ended up wounded. As of Monday early morning, the Miami law enforcement section experienced not produced any particulars of the shooting, but the girl’s family held a candlelight vigil on Sunday evening to honor her.
On social media, spouse and children customers termed Chassidy a “Tik Tok Princess” and showed video clip clips of her dancing joyously.
“Cassidy was a six-year-old with a vibrant and promising future,” her aunt wrote on Fb.
Chassidy is but the latest young victim in a string of shootings in general public areas in North Miami-Dade in new months. Among the them:
— 4 teenagers have been wounded on Jan. 11 when a person opened fired exterior an condominium advanced in Brownsville. One particular of those people wounded was a 17-calendar year-outdated female.
— 8 people today ended up wounded — two of them minors — when gunmen on Jan. 3 opened hearth at the basketball courts of the Minor River Park, 10525 NW 24th Ave. No one died, and law enforcement investigators have struggled to even get ideas about who may well be to blame.
— Four young adult males were shot, also on Jan. 3, at a Dominican food items stand in Allapattah. They all survived. The shooter there has not been caught.
The shootings this month have continued an upward craze in gunfire in 2020, a calendar year fueled by the pandemic and social unrest that has also led to a substantial leap in murders in Miami-Dade and most other significant cities about the region.
The loss of life toll in 2020 incorporated various little ones caught felled by bullets intended for other people Individuals victims contain 7-year-old Alana Washington, who was killed when gunmen sprayed the entrance of her residence with bullets and Hezekiah Mucherson, also 7, who was killed alongside with his father when an individual opened fire on their truck in Miami Gardens.