'Daddy, I've been hit': Four-year old niece of George Floyd injured in a shooting at her Houston home

On Jan. 1, George Floyd's four-year-old girl niece was wounded in a shooting that occurred in southwest Houston.

ABC 13 News reported that family members identified the girl as Arianna Delane, whose uncle George Floyd perished while in Minneapolis police custody on Memorial Day 2020. According to Arianna's father, their apartment in the 3300 block of Yellowstone Boulevard was hit by gunfire during the early morning hours of New Year's Day and one of the shots hit Arianna as she slept in the front bedroom.

"My daughter jumped up and said, 'Daddy, I've been hit' and I was shocked until I seen the blood and I realized my four-year-old daughter was really hit," the girl's father Derrick Delane said, according to ABC 13 News. "She didn't know what was going on. She was asleep."

According to the family, Arianna suffered a punctured lung and liver and three broken ribs. Authorities have not determined a motive for the shooting, but the family believes that they may have been targeted for violence.

"Why would my house get shot up?" Derrick said, according to ABC 13 News. "My daughter don't know. I can't explain that to her. As the father, you're supposed to protect the kids."

KHOU News reports that Arianna was transported to the hospital to undergo surgery. Derrick said that police took more than four hours to show up to the residence after the shooting was reported. 

Houston Police Chief Troy Finner released a statement regarding an investigation into the allegedly delayed response time to the shooting.

"The investigation into the senseless shooting of the four-year-old female at 3322 Yellowstone Boulevard on Saturday morning (Jan. 1) continues to move forward," Finner said. "I am aware and have concerns regarding the delayed response time in this incident and have initiated an Internal Affairs investigation. I ask the city to continue to pray for the child’s full recovery and assist in providing information that would lead to the arrest of the suspect or suspects responsible."

Arianna is currently still hospitalized.