PROVIDENCE – Footage from the shoot as fatally injured 7-year-old Ny’eil Pires shows two men opening fire on the girl and her family, according to a prosecutor.
Ny’eil Pires “fought for her life” in the hospital for more than three days before she died Monday, Special Assistant Attorney General Alison Bittl said Tuesday as the two men appeared in Providence District Court.
Shaheem Nathaniel and Ahmari Cabrera, who were arrested on Friday, charged with murder.
Nathaniel and Ahmari are accused of carrying out the Florence Street shooting in an attempt to kill Ny’eil’s father, Nelson Pires.
Ny’eil was with her family and she was sitting in the back seat of a Honda sedan when the two men opened fire on the car Thursday night, Bittle told Judge Stephen M. Isherwood.
Photos and video from cameras near the shooting scene show both Nathaniel and Ahmari climbing out of a nearby vehicle, shooting at the Pires family and then riding away, Bittl said.
Ny’eil’s father flagged down officers when they went to the scene at 35 Florence St. around 7:30 p.m. Friday night, Bittl said.
The investigation, aided by license plate-reading cameras, led investigators to Nathaniel and Ahmari and led to the seizure of two ghost guns, Bittl said.
The handguns, a 9mm and a .45 caliber, were both ghost guns, and they “matched the ballistics at the scene,” she said.
Isherwood ordered Nathaniel and Cabrera held without bail.
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