Family living in fear after 5 shot this summer outside of funeral home

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — “One-hit wonder” is the operation teen Jamese Cox uses to picture the time she was changeable leaving a ceremonial with her family.

The 16-year-old miss thinks the transgression lawsuit has mislaid its importance, and her household is near wondering why.

“I person a slug successful maine forever, 2 inches distant from my heart,” Jamese said and past began crying.

The shooting happened the day of July 31 at Sprowl Funeral & Cremation Care, 1134 W. 30th St. That’s southwest of the I-65 interchange for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street.

The 16-year-old says she was trying to shield different household members erstwhile she was shot. Jamese says she was mostly palmy successful shielding others, but 1 slug ended up hitting her 4-year-old cousin, Azaria, successful the head. Three men ages 21, 31 and 49, who Cox says are household members, besides were shot.

Azaria’s mom, Brittia Williams, said Wednesday astir her daughter, “She says, ‘Hey, ma I privation this scar gone. I privation this gone. It won’t spell away.”

Williams says the days aft the shooting were immoderate of the worst of her life. She says her children were taken distant from her by Indiana Department of Child Services.

“When it starts to consciousness a small normal, you know, and, present it is, the rug is snatched close nether my kids’ lives again, and it’s not fair,” Williams said.

Similar to Williams, Jamese’s mom, Jessica Robinson, said the household feels unsafe and unprotected.

Robinson said that aft the shooting, “I didn’t spell outside. I didn’t look retired windows. When my children person to spell to schoolhouse I really person to beryllium extracurricular astatine their autobus stop. My children person really seen this guy, Dominique. He’s been riding astir successful our area.”

Robinson was referring to Dominique Baquet, who has been charged successful the shooting. Court documents amusement Master Commissioner John Jay Boyce acceptable Baquet’s enslaved astatine $100,000, but Judge Mark D. Stoner aboriginal lowered the enslaved to $20,000. The lowered enslaved was done against the wishes of the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office.

Baquet paid the enslaved Aug. 20 and was released connected GPS monitoring.

When News 8 asked Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department connected Wednesday astir the family’s assertion of Baquet being seen successful the family’s neighborhood, an IMPD typical promised to walk connected the accusation to the investigator.

The charges against Baquet, filed connected Aug. 14, bash not straight connote helium fired the shots that injured the victims. Both charges are gun-related. Court documents accidental surveillance video shows different idiosyncratic shooting earlier Baquet. So far, that idiosyncratic has not been named.

Baquet is owed backmost successful tribunal Monday.