Send Only On 12: 5-year-old hit by stray bullet tells her story

Posted: 4:03 PM Apr 14, 2012
Reporter: Laura Warren

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News 12 at 6 o' clock / Saturday, April 14, 2012

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Ka'drika Cofield, 5, is out of the hospital after emergency surgery for a gunshot wound.

On Thursday night, a fight broke out near her home on Madrid Drive in Augusta. Deputies were called to break up the fight, but after they left, shots were fired. One of those stray bullets hit little Ka'drika as she was watching television.

Ka'drika said she heard the "bang" right before a bullet hit her tiny foot, leaving her in a tiny cast.

"I was sitting on the couch, and then everybody heard a sound," she said.

Latoiya Cofield, Ka'drika's mother, was not at home at the time of the shooting. Ka'drika was with her grandmother. But as soon as Cofield arrived at the emergency room, Ka'drika told her something that just broke her heart.

"She was like, 'Mom, they just shot me for no reason. I didn't even do nothing. I was just sitting on the sofa, watching TV,'" Cofield said.

Her grandmother called 911 to report an argument next door, and soon after the deputies left, shots were fired.

"They was arguing and they shot my leg. They came back with real guns," Ka'drika said.

And her mom is having a hard time explaining why bullet holes now cover their home and an even harder time explaining to her 5-year-old that she may never walk again.

"It's very hard, because like a 5-year-old doesn't really understand what's going on," Cofield told News 12's Laura Warren.

And when her mother asked her if she was ready to leave the hospital and go back home, Ka'drika screamed, "No, no!"

"She's scared to go there, so we'll probably have to move," her mother told us.

With the sound of the gunshots and shattered glass still fresh in her memory, the violence is too much for little Ka'drika to handle.

"I don't want to see any guns," she said.

And her mother just wants the person who pulled the trigger to realize what they've done.

"I'm hoping that they catch the person that did it because ... it's a 5-year-old that's hurting. And we don't know if she's going to be able to walk again," Cofield said.

Ka'drika and her family are staying with other family members for now. Cofield is hoping to find a way to move to a new house soon.

Doctors are hopeful that Ka'drika will walk again, but she was shot in the ankle and underwent emergency surgery. Doctors say her recovery will just depend on how her physical therapy goes.

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