Robert Louis Singletary is wanted for shooting a child and her family after a basketball rolled into the wrong yard (Gaston County Police) GASTONIA, N.C. - A North Carolina man is wanted for reportedly shooting and seriously injuring a child and her father after the little girl’s basketball rolled into his yard."He came out with a gun, he started shooting," the 6-year-old girl told WJBY in Charlotte, North Carolina. "Hope my daddy is OK."According to Gaston County Police, 24-year-old Robert Louis Singletary is accused of shooting four people Tuesday night on Grier Street.
The child and her father were seriously hurt; a woman was grazed by a bullet and a second man was shot but not hurt.The family told WJBY the shooting started after the child’s basketball rolled into a neighbor’s yard.
The 6-year-old girl was released from the hospital the next day. One family member remains in critical condition, the family said.Singletary is wanted on four counts of attempted first degree murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon.
As of Thursday, Singletary was still on the run and considered armed and dangerous.According to WJBY, Singletary was charged in December with kidnapping and assaulting his 21-year-old girlfriend with a mini sledgehammer.