MIAMI (WSVN) - Police have made an arrest in the case of a 5-year-old girl who was shot inside her Miami home: the child’s own mother.
Officers arrested 43-year-old Tralliney Shomdrea Coleman Wednesday. She faces several charges, including child neglect and lying to police.
Coleman’s daughter, identified as Sasha Star, was shot in her sleep, inside an apartment at Northwest 12th Avenue and 66th Street, at around 3 a.m., Tuesday.
Rescue crews transported the child to Jackson Memorial Hospital. As of Wednesday evening, there was no official word on her condition.
Luxury Rose, the child’s 23-year-old sister, spoke to 7News outside the hospital, Wednesday afternoon. She said the girl is alert, talking and making progress.
“We’re surviving. We’re going through things,” she said. “Sasha’s OK right now.”
According to police, 41-year-old Jonathan Craig, Coleman’s live-in boyfriend, shot the girl as she slept on a futon with her siblings in the living room of their home.
The police report noted that three children woke up to gunfire. One of them told police she “observed the defendant standing over her siblings, stating, ‘Oh, no. Damn, damn.'”
According to the report, a witness then confronted Craig and “began screaming at him, ‘You did this!’ The defendant replied, ‘I [expletive] up.'”
Investigators said hours before the shooting, Craig had pulled out his gun in front of the children, saying there were armed men outside the apartment.
After Sasha was taken to the hospital, police found loaded guns, heroin and inside the home described as filthy.
Craig now faces a long list of charges, including aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, child abuse and drug trafficking.
Coleman is being held on $66,000 bond.
A hearing was held Wednesday to determine what’s next for her children.
“Based on everything that I’m reading here, basically everything in their life is a trauma,” said the presiding judge.
The judge ordered Coleman’s two other children to be placed in foster care and receive immediate therapy. Sasha will join her siblings when she’s released from the hospital.
“I got granted to see my little sisters, so I guess everything will be OK,” said Rose.
A status hearing for the child’s custody has been scheduled for Oct. 3.
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