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BRONX, NEW YORK - A 17-year-old girl is fighting for her life with a stray bullet lodged in her head after being caught up in a mass shooting visiting her old Bronx neighborhood on the day her mother graduated with a Ph.D.
Anthonaya Campbell was watching a basketball tournament at Haffen Park across the street from her family’s old apartment in Baychester when the shooting broke out at about 7:25 p.m. on Saturday, leaving one man dead, three adults wounded and her clinging to life. Police confirmed Anthonaya was a bystander.
Hours before Anthonaya was shot in the back of the head, her mother, Jennifer Talbot, was awarded her Ph.D. in psychology at her graduation ceremony at Heart Bible International University in Connecticut, where mother and daughter moved five years ago.
“My day of celebration became my day of my worst nightmare really quickly,” Talbot said.
Added Anthonaya’s older sister, who did not want to be named, “My sister’s a warrior.”
“She will never stop fighting,” the sibling said “She always keep fighting. She’s above what everybody thinks she may be. She will continue to rise above everything.
“And she will she will forever beat the odds, whatever everybody will see her or try to be, she was always and forever will be greater than that. And when she wakes up, she will rise above this, too.”
Anthonaya had called her mom several times Saturday to ask how her big day was going. “She felt bad because she didn’t get to come [to graduation],” Talbot said. “It was the biggest achievement of my life.”
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