13-year-old Annie Fryar is dead today after her half-brother fired two bullets into her head, then tried to do the same to his mother.
STORY: We Pray! 13-Year-Old Girl Shot In The Head By Her Brother
According to the New York Daily News, after Steven Murray, 28, shot his mother, Christine Fryar, 44, he then opened fire, engaging in a shootout with cops as he tried to flee on foot toward a Harlem highway.
When detectives showed mom Fryar a photo of the gunman while she was being treated for a forehead wound, she identified him with hatred in her voice.
She told the NYDN:
“That’s my son. That’s the animal who shot me and killed my daughter.”
Murray’s rap sheet includes two assaults on cops. He had moved in with Fryar and her seventh-grade daughter, Annie, after moving from North Carolina several weeks before.
As reported by the NYDN:
The mother felt like Murray was just loafing around and wanted him out. Annie, a well-liked, diligent student, tried to play peacemaker.
At 5 p.m. on Monday, Murray and Fryar were at it again. Annie, hanging out with pals from Public School 46, abruptly left for her apartment.
“She said, ‘Let me go upstairs before things get out of hand. …They’re going to start arguing because my brother’s drunk,’” Donette Skinner, 13, recalled.
“I walked her to her building, then I went home. I didn’t think it was going to get carried away.”
Apparently, things calmed down. But at 2 a.m., while Annie dozed face-down on the pullout sofa in the living room, mother and son began arguing again.
She fled into her bedroom and Murray allegedly pulled out a .22 caliber pistol and plugged Annie with two shots — one in her right temple, one near her right eye.
Fryar rushed into the living room.
“You shot my daughter,” she cried out, according to her upstairs neighbor.
Murray wasn’t done, cops say. He fired at her and she ran back into the bedroom. When she opened the door again, he was reloading and she ran back inside.
She had been hit in both hands and the forehead but was miraculously not killed. The bullet traveled under the skin of her head and lodged near her ear.
When police arrived, Fryar gave them a description of her son, which was put out over the radio.
Witnesses heard the cops tell the suspect to stop.
SOURCE: NYDN
