A 7-year-old girl who was struck by a stray bullet in Harlem after eating pizza with family remains unable to speak, her anguished mother said Tuesday — as she begged the city to take action on youth violence.
Fatou Keita was still recuperating from surgery, her family keeping vigil at her hospital bed, following the shocking broad daylight – and potentially gang-linked – shooting Monday, her mother Fatoumata Keita, 51, told The Post.
“She is a brave girl,” Keita said in an exclusive interview, adding that her daughter was showing some signs of improvement, but was not well enough to speak yet. “She is bleeding. She’s moving. She wants to talk.”
“She opens her eyes now. We talk to her and she does this,” the girl’s father, Ahmed Keita, said, shaking his head up and down. “She hears, she understands what we say.”
The shell-shocked mother, meanwhile, broke down in tears as she said Mayor Eric Adams needed to address gun violence that both victimizes and is carried out by youths.