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La'neria Wilson, 11, waited to be taken into surgery at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. Wilson was struck by gunfire beneath her right eye inside her bedroom minutes into the New Year.
The 44-year-old Fridley man arrested after firing an assault-style rifle that struck a young girl in the face on New Year's Day in Minneapolis admitted to firing the gun but said it belonged to a friend, according to new federal charges filed this week.
James William Turner made his first federal court appearance Tuesday to face one count of illegally possessing ammunition as a felon, one week after police arrested him on evidence that included a Snapchat video posted before the shooting, along with a neighbor's doorbell surveillance footage that allegedly showed it unfold in the 2300 block of Bryant Avenue on the city's northside.
One of several bullets fired from an AR-15-style rifle struck La'neria Ross, now 12, in the face as she walked to her second-floor bedroom window to investigate the sound of gunshots just after midnight ushered in 2024. Her mother, Shenedra Ross, later told police that she yelled at her children upstairs to take cover when she heard the shots. But by then it was too late. La'neria survived but required surgery to remove bullet fragments from her face.
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