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Was the fatal shooting of a Houston 7-year-old racially motivated?

HOUSTON - The sister of a 7-year-old Houston girl shot to death in her family car said she locked eyes with the killer before he started firing into the vehicle holding a mother and four daughters.

Investigators are trying to determine a motive for the attack that killed Jazmine Barnes. The girl's mother, who was shot in the arm, said she believed the attack on her black family was motivated by race.

"This is something I believe was a hate crime," LaPorsha Washington said Thursday.

Jazmine was killed Sunday as she sat behind the driver's seat on

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