Articles labeled: Seliethia Parker

Alexis Goggins, a “soft-spoken” 7-year-old from Detroit, Michigan, is slowly beginning to recover from the six gunshots that wounded her last December.

The young girl bears several scars from the Dec. 2 shooting, including a long, thin surgical line stretching from one side of her hairline to the other. Her right eye, which was blinded in the attack, has also been removed.

Goggins was shot when she threw herself between her mother, Seliethia Parker, and Parker’s former boyfriend, Calvin Tillie.

The mother and daughter were getting a ride from a friend when Parker’s former boyfriend emerged from the shadows outside Parker’s house and jumped into the vehicle. He then forced the friend to drive at gunpoint for several minutes.

Under the pretense of needing fuel, Parker’s friend stopped at a Detroit gas station to call 911.

Inside the SUV, Parker pleaded with the gunman not to shoot. As he was about to open fire, Alexis cried, “Don’t hurt my mother!” and jumped into her mother’s arms from the back seat.

Despite her daughter’s efforts, Parker was shot twice.