HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The 4-year-old girl who was shot in southwest Houston on New Year's Day has been identified as the niece of George Floyd, who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. Family identified the child as Arianna Delane.
Her father, Derrick Delane, said their apartment in the 3300 block of Yellowstone Boulevard was hit several times by gunfire just before 3 a.m. on Jan. 1. The gunfire that entered the second story hit the child who was asleep in the front bedroom.
"My daughter jumped up and said, 'Daddy, I've been hit' and I was shocked until I seen the blood and I realized my 4-year-old daughter was really hit," Delane recalled. "She didn't know what was going on. She was asleep."