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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Blanco

North Carolina man arrested for shooting six-year-old over a basketball has prior arrest for sledgehammer assault

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A North Carolina man accused of shooting a little girl and her parents was previously arrested for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend.

Robert Singletary, 24, has been charged for allegedly opening fire on six-year-old Kinsley White and her father William White when children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into Mr Singletary’s yard. Kinsley’s mother Ashley Hilderbrand was also grazed by a bullet during the 18 April shooting, according to the Gaston County Police Department.

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