A four-year-old girl, who was running away from gang bullets, was left injured in an alleged hit and run incident.
Little Stephane Papier from Belhar was walking to pre-school when she got knocked by a car on Friday at the corner of Alabama Drive and Castle Lane.
Her uncle Donovan, 40, says he was with the child when the incident occurred.
“We heard the gunshots and I told her we should pick up the pace because we didn’t know who was targeted, and we didn’t want to be hit in the crossfire.
“And so we rushed over to Alabama, as we were about to cross there was a car coming.
“But I guess Stephane must have still been too scared to stand and wait for the car to pass.
“She took a step off the pavement and she was knocked over.”
The uncle says instead of stopping, the motorist drove off.
“The car drove off and we tried to chase it.
“But then the driver came back and told us that he went to drop his daughter off in school up the road.
“When I asked him if he knew what he had done he said yes he would take care of it.
“And he said he would take my niece to the doctor but he didn’t do that, we had to get a private car to take her to the hospital.
“The police were present but they did nothing to assist us, the driver was not arrested.”
When the Daily Voice arrived at the girl’s Belhar home the family said Stephane was still in hospital with her grandma.
Police say they have no record of the incident and Donovan says they are considering opening a case.