A six-year-old girl was attacked during a DoorDash delivery while riding a pink scooter outside her home in Georgia.
Khalani Ogletree was playing alone Saturday night in the Eagle’s Brook community when a 16-year-old DoorDash driver who was making a pizza delivery to a neighbor’s home shot her with a gel gun and uttered profanities in an unprovoked attack.
The terrified girl cried and ran home to safety. After the ordeal, she told her neighbors WSB-TV News “They called me a loser and said bad words to me.”
Neighbor Nick Patel, who witnessed the attack, said he saw four men in a white car (one got out to deliver the pizza) before driving off without respecting stop signs, and saw the little girl crying and running toward her mother.
“I don’t know what these guys are doing. She’s just looking at them, so I think they’re making fun of her, laughing at her or something,” Patel said.
Six-year-old Khalani Ogletree was attacked with a gel gun while riding her scooter on Saturday night.
Neighbor Nick Patel’s security camera captured the moment the white car pulled up in front of Ogletree’s home just before the shooting.
Patel said he later saw the car speed away, turning around a roundabout and running stop signs.
Henry County police located the car and authorities have since said the 16-year-old who shot the girl with a gel gun now faces simple assault charges.
He was later handed over to his mother following his arrest, the outlet said.
Although the teen was charged, Ogletree’s mother, Shaterica Ellis, would like to see the others involved also face charges and admitted her daughter was shaken by the incident.
“She was crying a lot. At first I didn’t know what the problem was,” he said.
Ogletree “was crying her eyes out” after being attacked by a 16-year-old boy driving the white car, her mother said.
Khalani’s mother, Shaterica Ellis, said her daughter was shaken by the incident and believes all other teens involved should be held accountable.
Disturbed by what he saw in his neighborhood, Patel agrees with Ellis and believes all four should be held accountable.
“He’s just a little boy. If you’re going to do it, do it with an adult, not a baby or a little boy,” he said. “I think all four of them, whatever crime they’ve charged the guy with, all four of them should do it.”
Ellis said that now, whenever he sees a white car, he fears for his family. “I can’t believe they would do this to a six-year-old.”
“Those guys, I don’t know what they’re doing. She’s just looking at them, so I think they’re mocking her, laughing at her or something,” Patel said.
Pictured: A typical gel blaster gun that shoots superabsorbent polymer water beads.
DoorDash issued a statement to the local media outlet stating that the delivery driver was not a “Dasher.”
“To be clear, this individual was not a Dasher, and we have disabled the account that was misused,” they wrote in part.
Gel blaster guns are known as the “kid-friendly” version of paintball guns, but they are… illegal in New York State.
Its gel-based pellets are made from non-toxic polymer water beads, and have less impact than a Nerf gun or other pressurized water guns.
