Sleeping New Jersey girl, 13, hit by stray bullet
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A sleeping New Jersey teenager was shot when gunfire broke out outside her home and a bullet pierced her bedroom wall, authorities said.
Tiya Hudson, a 13-year-old girl from the Sicklerville section of Winslow Township, was struck in the buttocks around 12:45 a.m. Monday. Her injuries were not considered life-threatening. She was taken to Cooper University Hospital in Camden.
Her mother, Betty Hudson, said the shooting makes it hard to feel safe at home.
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"We're not at the wrong place at the wrong time," she told WPVI-TV in Philadelphia. "We're home in bed and something like this happens."
The girl's older sister, Toni Hudson, said she heard gunshots and a scream and ran to get her their mother. When she came out of her mother's room, she said her sister was crawling toward her "saying she was going to die."
A family friend applied pressure to the wound, the family said.
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The family says two other girls were also home at the time of the shooting.
The Camden County Prosecutor's office says a 56-year-old woman in a home across the street was injured by debris when a bullet hit her house. She was treated by medical personnel at the scene but declined further medical attention.
No arrests have been made.