Post by Logan on Jan 23, 2016 4:22:42 GMT -6
Mother tells constable who shot 12-year-old daughter: "God will pull us through this."
Sherry Gehman-Meyer wants the community and the world to know her daughter, Ciara, saved her life and the life of the constable who shot and killed the 12-year-old at the family's home earlier this month in Perry County.
She also wants them to know that she doesn't blame Constable Clark Steele for the girl's death at the family's apartment on Rebecca Drive in Penn Township on Jan. 11.
"She gave up her life to save me. I know the situation he (Steele) was put in," Gehman-Meyer said. "I know he was only protecting himself."
Ciara died when a bullet Steele fired at her father passed through the man's arm and hit her, state police have said.
Continued at www.pennlive.com/news/2016/01/mother_of_slain_girl_to_consta.html#incart_river_home .
Sherry Gehman-Meyer wants the community and the world to know her daughter, Ciara, saved her life and the life of the constable who shot and killed the 12-year-old at the family's home earlier this month in Perry County.
She also wants them to know that she doesn't blame Constable Clark Steele for the girl's death at the family's apartment on Rebecca Drive in Penn Township on Jan. 11.
"She gave up her life to save me. I know the situation he (Steele) was put in," Gehman-Meyer said. "I know he was only protecting himself."
Ciara died when a bullet Steele fired at her father passed through the man's arm and hit her, state police have said.
Continued at www.pennlive.com/news/2016/01/mother_of_slain_girl_to_consta.html#incart_river_home .