California Shoe Store Owner Shoots 9-Year-Old Girl While Firing At Shoplifters

9-Year-Old Girl Shot After Store Owner Opens Fire In California Mall

A Southern California shoe store owner opened fire at shoplifters and accidentally shot a 9-year-old girl amidst the chaos.

The SacBee reports that Marqel Cockrell, 20, was arrested after fleeing to Nevada. He fired shots while he was chasing alleged shoplifters out of a store on Tuesday evening at the Mall of Victor Valley in the California city of  Victorville.

According to police reports he“fired multiple shots at the shoplifters,” Victorville police said in a statement. “Cockrell’s shots missed the shoplifters and instead hit the 9-year-old female victim.”

The owner of a Southern California shoe store was arrested in Clark County Tuesday night after shooting a child at a mall in Victorville. Police say the man was firing at shoplifters but the shots instead hit the victim. FOX5’s @Feven_Kay reports.
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Officers who responded to the calls of gunfire found the girl suffering from a gunshot wound at 6:30 p.m., the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said.

The unidentified child was then airlifted to a hospital in stable condition. Her family reports that she was hit three times in her arm, but is recovering.

“We were scared. We were just waiting for someone to get us out,” said Silemyr Valle, said a mall worker.

The shooter, Cockrell, is the co-owner of the shoe store Sole Addicts He was later arrested in his car at 9 p.m. in Clark County, Nevada by the Nevada High Patrol. He is currently being held on $1 million bail at the Clark County Detention Center “on an extraditable warrant, for attempted murder.”

 

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