The daughter of comedian and radio host Rickey Smiley, 19, was shot in an anger incident on the Texas highway and underwent surgery Monday.
Smiley, 51, stifled tears when she revealed on her Birmingham, Alabama morning radio show that her youngest daughter, Aaryn, was hit on her way to a Whataburger in Houston on Sunday night.
“I am so angry now,” Smiley said.
“I go to bed around 8:30 or 9 o’clock, and woke up with text messages,” he continued.
“The fact that she’s lying in the hospital and will probably have to have surgery … she’s just crying, she’s scared and I just hate it.”
The teenager, a Baylor University student, was caught between two people who shot each other while waiting at a red light and was hit three times, Smiley said.
She underwent surgery at a Houston hospital on Monday, then tweeted.
“Thank you for your prayers or our daughter,” he wrote. “I really appreciate the support!”
In a YouTube video titled “Thank God for Protecting My Daughter,” Smiley expressed frustration at gun violence across the country over the holiday weekend.
“Today could have been different,” he said. “I could have been at the funeral home … with the families [of those] killed in DC, in Atlanta and all the people killed in Chicago. “
“Someone has to bury his son,” Smiley continued. “I’m lucky that mine is still alive.”
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