Four persons, including a seven year old girl, were shot in a sudden and unexplained outburst of gunfire on Monday evening on Central American Boulevard. It was a spray of bullets, by who witnesses identify as two youths, shortly after 6 pm near the Boulevard’s corner with Faber’s Road. Dorrel Williams Jr. was standing in his yard when one of the bullets ricocheted through a stop sign and hit him in the forehead. His mother was inside the home preparing a meal when she heard the shots. She rushed outside and found her son on the ground.

He was taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced clinically dead. He was, however, placed on

It is unclear if Williams was the target, but his family doesn’t believe he was. Also injured in the hail of bullets were 64-year-old Steven Rhamdas and his 7-year-old granddaughter Jenny Moguel. They were across the street from their home on Central American Boulevard in front of a Chinese Shop when the gunshots erupted.  Rhamdas was hit in his hand while his granddaughter was hit in the back. She is still hospitalized and has undergone surgery.  The fourth victim is Robert Howard who was on a bicycle riding past the area when one of the bullets grazed his leg.