Who was Asiah Figueroa? Wiki, Biography, Age, Shooting, Death, Investigation

Asiah Figueroa was asleep just before midnight Tuesday when the alleged teenage gunmen pulled into two cars at her great-grandmother’s Charlotte home and fired hundreds of bullets, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said. A 3-year-old boy was killed and his 4-year-old sister was injured when gunmen fired nearly 150 rounds at a North Carolina home, in what police believe was related to a high school dispute.

Asiah was hit by gunfire and later died in a hospital. His 4-year-old sister was also beaten but is expected to survive, police said. Researchers released two videos of the suspects arriving at the home in hopes of getting help from the public in identifying them. Detectives believe the incident is related to several other shootings that resulted in two homicides.

“The information also indicates that the series of shootings has something to do with Hopewell High School students, and detectives believe a North Mecklenburg and Chambers (Vance) High School student is involved,” police said. said in a statement. The murder of the boy should “outrage everyone,” Capt. Joel McNelly told reporters at a news conference on Wednesday.

Asiah’s great-grandmother, Susie Whitley, told WBTV that he and other family members were staying at his home when the shots rang out.  “At first I thought, I thought I had heard gunshots, but I really didn’t know,” he told the station. “But then when I heard them knock on the door, I knew someone was shooting at my house.”

“These people need to be caught and taken off the street because they keep shooting at people’s houses,” said her great-grandmother. Asiah, who was turning 4 in December, was a kind boy who loved to play games on his iPad, Whitley said. Neighbors said they heard Asiah’s mother screaming after the shooting. “The worst sound I ever heard was the bloodcurdling screams of the mother who had just lost her son,” Abdul Khan. told WBTV. “It’s scary, it’s almost surreal.”