COLUMBIA, SC — Childress was wounded early Sunday morning as she waited for a cab near the Five Points fountain. She and a high school friend, who was visiting from Clemson, had been to the S.C. State Fair for a Hunter Hayes concert and had gone to Five Points afterward to eat at Pita Pit. Childress’ mother had told her to take a cab home rather than risk walking late at night. A random .40-caliber bullet hit Childress, causing her to collapse. The bullet lodged in her spinal cord. Childress knew she could not feel her legs the moment the bullet struck, Carpenter said. “She knew when she came out of surgery,” he said. “She told her parents she couldn’t feel her legs.”
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NYDAILYNews on High school track star shot and killed after jumping out of closet in prank gone horribly wrong: An 18-year-old high school track star was tragically shot and killed after jumping out of a closet to scare a friend, her family says. The father of Premila Lal of Longmont, Colo., says the girl was returning home with her 12-year-old cousin around 8 p.m. Friday when she decided to play a prank that went horribly wrong. Inside the house were Premila's 15-year-old brother and her friend, 21-year-old Nerrek Daniel Galley, a man who depicts himself as an avid gun enthusiast on his Facebook profile. "They somehow entered the house and my son and Nerrek didn't know it was them," her father, Pravenn, told KDVR. "After she was shot, then Nerrek realized it was Premila."
COLUMBIA, SC — Childress was wounded early Sunday morning as she waited for a cab near the Five Points fountain. She and a high school friend, who was visiting from Clemson, had been to the S.C. State Fair for a Hunter Hayes concert and had gone to Five Points afterward to eat at Pita Pit. Childress’ mother had told her to take a cab home rather than risk walking late at night. A random .40-caliber bullet hit Childress, causing her to collapse. The bullet lodged in her spinal cord. Childress knew she could not feel her legs the moment the bullet struck, Carpenter said. “She knew when she came out of surgery,” he said. “She told her parents she couldn’t feel her legs.”