2nd arrest made in June shooting that injured girl on her 6th birthday

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/nd-arrest-made-in-june-shooting-that-injured-girl-on/article_d6e14e06-1f2f-11e4-9226-001a4bcf6878.html




Willie L. Strickland


POSTED: FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 2014 2:11 PM
By Roseann Moring / World-Herald staff writer

Police have arrested a 20-year-old man who they say shot an Omaha girl in the face during her sixth birthday party in June.

The suspect, Willie L. Strickland of Omaha, has been in jail since early this summer in connection with a shooting a month before Taelor Fentress was shot. He has been convicted of several misdemeanors, including disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Taelor survived the June 5 shooting, but it left her with severe injuries that required multiple surgeries, her grandmother has said.

Strickland was booked Friday on suspicion of first-degree assault, use of a gun to commit a felony and discharging a weapon at an occupied dwelling. Details on the shooting were unavailable.

FULL story at link.

[BlueJazz]

1. 2 young lives in a mess and part of it is our society's fault.

When you don't fund certain programs, we all pay the price.