Two teenage boys were walking down Brookwood Street in Harrisburg on Sunday afternoon when suddenly they became targets in a shooting.
The boys were two of three people shot in Harrisburg on Sunday. The other person was shot in an unrelated incident at 14th and Market streets, according to police.
Taylin “Lil’ Tim” Allen, 14, said he was walking with his cousin when a vehicle pulled up.
Allen said the men asked the two teens what gangs they were in, and he responded that they weren’t in one. All of a sudden someone was shooting.
“I put my arm up, and he hit me in my arm,” Allen said. A bullet pierced his right wrist, and he and his cousin started running. He said he feels that if he hadn’t tried to protect himself with his hands, he could have been hit in the head.
Allen said he’s doing OK now, and that while the shooting was scary he wasn’t that frightened at the moment it happened. But he couldn’t explain why.
Soon after, police and emergency medical personnel arrived, and then word started getting out. Allen’s father, Milton “Tim” Taylor, was in Virginia with his girlfriend at the time. His phone had died but his sister got through on his girlfriend’s phone.
He heard her say “oh my god, are you serious?” before she handed him the phone and started packing.
As he said hello, his sister told him someone shot his son.
“I really thought I lost my son,” Taylor said Sunday night. He has made it a personal mission to keep his son from the violence, he said, and this was a moment he was afraid none of it had mattered.
“My son is not into no gangs,” Taylor said. “My son does music. He knows I don’t play that. If he gets into it, he’s going to have to deal with me.”
But his son was lucky and was home with him on Sunday night. His cousin, who Taylor said is around the same age, is still in the hospital with injuries that were more severe.
Right now, his family hopes they catch who shot these boys, but he also posted to Facebook that he’s praying for the assailants.
Taylor has been through the system and he said he wants to give the city’s youth some options outside of the city’s gangs. That’s why he’s made music his focus. He said he was able to get out, and it’s not too late for them.
He has Allen singing R&B; despite the shooting, they’re still planning on Allen performing at a concert in Reservoir Park next weekend.
It’s important for other Harrisburg youth to stick with music even when others might criticize them for it, he continued, which sometimes can drive them away from it. He doesn’t think that’s right. “Their music is a way to express themselves,” Taylor said.
But for now, he’s going to keep his son close.
“We’re just sitting here, trying to find a solution for Harrisburg,” Taylor said. “That’s all we trying to do.”
Read more on PennLive:
- 3 injured in separate, unrelated Harrisburg shootings: police
- No threat found after police called to Knoebels on Sunday: reports
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