PROVIDENCE – Footage from the shooting that fatally injured 7-year-old Ny’eil Pires shows two men opening fire on the girl and her family, according to a prosecutor.
Ny’eil Pires “fought for her life” at the hospital for more than three days before she died on Monday, Special Assistant Attorney General Alison Bittl said Tuesday when the two men appeared in District Court, Providence.
Shaheem Nathaniel and Ahmari Cabrera, who were arrested on Friday, face murder charges.
Nathaniel and Ahmari are accused of carrying out the shooting on Florence Street in an attempt to kill Ny’eil’s father, Nelson Pires.
Ny’eil was with her family, and she was sitting in the rear seat of a Honda sedan when the two men opened fire on the car Thursday evening, Bittle told Judge Stephen M. Isherwood.
Images and video from cameras near the shooting scene show both Nathaniel and Ahmari climbing out of a nearby vehicle, shooting at the Pires family and then riding away, Bittl said.
Ny’eil’s father flagged down officers when they went to the scene at 35 Florence St. at about 7:30 p.m. Friday night, Bittl said.
The investigation, which was aided by license-plate reading cameras, drew investigators to Nathaniel and Ahmari and led to the seizure of two ghost guns, Bittl said.
The handguns, a 9 mm and a .45-caliber, were both ghost guns, and they “matched the ballistics on the scene,” she said.
Isherwood ordered Nathaniel and Cabrera held without bail.
This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: Two men face murder charges in fatal shooting of Ny’eil Pires, 7
