{"id":372222,"date":"2026-10-13T19:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372222\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T19:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:28:16","slug":"nyc-girl-12-struck-by-possible-gang-crossfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372222\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC girl, 12, struck by possible gang crossfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sister of an innocent 12-year-old girl <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/12\/us-news\/innocent-12-year-old-girl-shot-multiple-times-on-nyc-street\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shot in possible gang crossfire<\/a> as people shouted, \u201cEwok!\u201d at a Bronx park said Tuesday that her\u00a0 stricken sibling phoned her moments after to tell her, \u201cI got shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was scared when she called me,\u201d Miral Alamouri, 14, told The Post of her younger sister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was like, \u2018I got shot. Oh, I\u2019m scared,\u2019 and I\u2019m trying to keep her awake because you don\u2019t want her to go to sleep and get into a coma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I\u2019m just talking to her, keeping her awake.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41312626\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/30-p-m-monday-tratman-144891658.jpg\" alt=\"Miral Alamouri looking down with a somber expression against a neutral wall.\" class=\"wp-image-41312626\"\/>Miral Alamouri, 14, speaks about her sister, Maya Alamouri, 12, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, in the Bronx, N.Y. Maya was shot in the stomach and right foot Monday after being caught in the crossfire of a possible gang shootout, according to authorities. James Keivom for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so crazy to get that call,\u201d said Miral, whose family did not want to release a photo of the wounded child, explaining they are afraid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not a call you would expect from your sibling. I had just left her minutes prior to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, I\u2019m in shock,\u201d\u00a0 said Miral, who explained she and her sister had separated because the younger girl wanted to meet friends at the park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just praying for her to be fine. That\u2019s my little sister, and her birthday is about to be in a few days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want them to stop giving children or young adults access to weapons because they don\u2019t know how to use them,\u2019\u2019 Miral said. \u201cThey keep using it to target people, shoot people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always the wrong person at the wrong time and that shouldn\u2019t be happening.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41312650\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-bronx-n-y-maya-144897013.jpg\" alt=\"A NYPD police vehicle parked outside The Pearly Gates Park in the Bronx.\" class=\"wp-image-41312650\"\/>A general view shows the shooting scene next to The Pearly Gates Park on Tratman Avenue between Rowland Street and St. Peters Avenue in Westchester Square in the Bronx. James Keivom for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou go to the park to sit there and play with your friends, not to get shot,\u201d the teen said.<\/p>\n<p>The 12-year-old took bullets to her stomach and right foot in front of a building on Tratman Avenue between Rowland Street and St. Peters Avenue in Westchester Square in The Bronx around 8:30 p.m. Monday, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>The people involved in the shooting were masked, Miral\u00a0 said, quoting her sister.<\/p>\n<p>Miral said her sister already had surgery on her abdomen, where doctors found holes in her colon from the bullet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer right foot is fractured, so they\u2019re gonna have to do surgery on that. They are waiting for her stomach to be fine before they get started on her leg,\u2019\u2019 the older sister said.<\/p>\n<p>Cops have not revealed a motive or suspects in the shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sister of an innocent 12-year-old girl shot in possible gang crossfire as people shouted, \u201cEwok!\u201d at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,6809,57,9,24,63,3980,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-372222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-gangs","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-shootings","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}