HAMPTON, Va. — The mother of 1-year-old Symphony Covington says she and her family have experienced trauma after Symphony was accidentally shot by her 3-year-old sibling.
"Noah shot my daughter. Noah is my 3-year-old son. He shot Symphony, accidentally shot her," Symphony's mother Kanesha Tyler said. "He is mildly autistic. He did not know what he was doing. There should have never been a gun in my house in the first place,"
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Tyler says her 14-year-old son was arrested in connection to the shooting.
Hampton police say a teen is charged with one count of possession of a firearm by a juvenile.
"Elijah is my son that is incarcerated. My 14-year old son. He’s not 15. People think that he’s the shooter that shot her but he's not."
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"Do you know how the gun got in your house or how your son got a gun?" News 3's Leondra Head asked Tyler.
Tyler responded, "I do not. I don’t know and he’s still incarcerated, so that’s not something I even want to talk about because I don’t want to further incriminate my son."
She says her daughter was shot in the shoulder.
"My foot had just hit the bottom step in my house and I heard a loud noise. By the time I reached the top of the stairs, my daughter was screaming, 'Oh my God, [Symphony] got shot,'" Tyler said.
She says a neighbor took her and her daughter to the hospital.
"It wasn’t until then that I realized she was shot in the shoulder. All I saw was that my baby had a hole in her and there were fragments on my clothes so I couldn’t look at it," Tyler said.
She says May 28, the day her daughter was shot inside their house, brings back too many bad memories.
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She and her family haven’t slept there since the incident, opting to stay at a hotel instead.
"My boys keep saying they don’t want to go back to the house. My 7-year-old calls it the devil’s house," Tyler said.
Tyler is raising money to get her and her family new home. If you would like to help, click here.
