‘I thought I was going to lose my kids': Parents of children injured in Fort Worth drive-by shooting speak

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The parents of two young victims have set up a Gofundme campaign following a shooting that left their children hospitalized.

When shots rang out in front of Druscilla Rodriguez's home at Miramar Apartments in Fort Worth on Wednesday evening, she went into"mommy mode."She quickly went from her six-year-old, Ka'deon, to her three-year-old, Me'chelle.

"We were all sitting outside with the neighbors, laughing and talking. Next thing you know, a car drove by, and opened fire," she said.They said Ka'deon was hit in the femur bone and right leg and had surgery the next morning to put in a metal plate and screws. “It went through her liver, punctured the right kidney, they had to remove the right kidney, and it also punctured a main blood vessel," Rodriguez explained.

The parents are grateful that their children are recovering: Meme is out of a coma and off of the ventilator. Ka'deon was discharged from the hospital on Friday.On Friday, police said they had identified a suspect vehicle but were not releasing those details.“They haven’t even lived long enough to, to have to go through anything like that," said Kinney.

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