Girl shot in QC road-rage incident is home, can smile and talk

Published December 13, 2013 6:59pm

The nine-year-old girl who was shot in a road rage incident last week is already home and can already smile and talk, her mother said.

According to GMA reporter Susan Enriquez in a "24 Oras" report aired Friday evening, the child was discharged from the hospital Thursday night. She is already home although her parents are keeping their address secret for security reasons.

"Inaalalayan namin siya sa pagpunta sa C.R., pero ang maganda ay nakakakusap na namin ng maayos," her mother said.

GMA News obtained closed-circuit television footage from the area and has forwarded these to the National Bureau of Investigation.

The NBI said, however, that most of the footage is unusable because it is too bright to see the license number of the white Hyundai sports utility vehicle involved in the incident. They added the footage was taken from angles that make it hard to see the SUV's license plate.

Even if they run the videos through an enhancer, the numbers and letters on the license plate will still be difficult to decipher, the report said.

The NBI is currently looking for CCTV footage that shows the SUV from the front.

In an earlier report, the victim’s father said he and his wife were on their way to drop off their daughters at school for a field trip when they crossed paths with a white Hyundai sports utility vehicle on M.H. Del Pilar St. in Barangay Bungad, Quezon City.

“[The car’s] bright headlight directly blind[ed] my sight. So when the driver of the said SUV and I met side by side, I brought my window down and he did so too... I asked him politely and said... “Brod, pwede mo namang ibaba’—meaning dim his headlight. [But] he replied arrogantly, ‘eh, ano ngayon?!’” he said.

The argument led to the driver of the SUV firing three shots at the family's car. A bullet hit one of the daughters in the liver and kidneys, reports said. — JDS, GMA News

Tags: roadrage