Robert Singletary, the North Carolina man who shot a young girl and her parents after a basketball rolled into his yard, was freed on bond at the time of the shooting. The $250,000 bond was unsecured, meaning he didn’t even need to provide any collateral, only a promise to return to court.
The bond was for a vicious attack on his girlfriend with a sledgehammer, an attack that occurred on December 2, 2022. According to the Gaston Police Department, Singletary hit his girlfriend in the head with a sledgehammer and then held her captive inside his apartment for hours.
Describing the shocking assault in a statement, the Gaston Police Department said, “The victim said that after being struck, she immediately felt dizzy and disoriented and that she was bleeding profusely from the back of her head. Singletary told her that she could not leave until she had cleaned up all the evidence from the assault.”
Despite that horrific assault, Singletary was freed on an unsecured bond and turned back out on the streets. Mere months later he shot Kinsley White, a little, six-year-old girl, and her parent. Describing that horrific shooting on The American Tribune, we said:
Police in Gastonia, a town in Gaston County, North Carolina are hunting for a gunman who shot a 6-year-old girl and her parents on Tuesday night. Apparently, the incident happened when several young kids were playing basketball and a basketball rolled down the street and into the suspect’s yard.
Apparently, the suspect, Robert Singletary, was so furious that the basketball rolled into his yard that he then chased the kids back up the street while firing a handgun at his neighbors. Then Singletary came back and shot at William White as White as he ran away with his 6-year-old daughter, Kinsley.
Both Kinsley and her father were seriously hurt by the gunfire and her mother, Ashley Hilderbrand, was grazed by a bullet. William White is still in the hospital, Ashley Hilderbrand has recovered from the grazing wound and is back at home, as is Kinsley. So William White was able to rescue his daughter, but at the cost of being seriously injured himself.
Kinsley and her mother are both out of the hospital, having only been grazed by bullets. Her father, however, is in far worse condition. Fox News Digital reported that Tracey Hilderbrand, his sister-in-law, said, “He has his liver split, he has a piece of lung missing, he has a broken rib and something [with] his abdomen.”
Singletary was arrested in Tampa, Florida. He is now facing four counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill inflicting serious injury, and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to Gaston County Police. Let’s hope they don’t turn him back out on the streets on an unsecured bond yet again.
Featured image credit: Gaston County Sheriff’s Office
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