The 3-year-old girl hit by a stray bullet in Brooklyn left the hospital Monday and headed home — even as her mom says the family wants out of the area after the frightening ordeal.
Little Tiara Aiken looked on shyly and sucked her thump in her mom’s arms as the family left Maimonides Medical Center shortly after 2 p.m.
Her tiny arm w𒅌as in a sling from the slug that hit her s🎃houlder.
The tot’s distraught mother, Avion Bartlett, told The Post earlier in the day that the family wants to leave the area.
“We have to go,” Barlett said. “We’re looking to move. Anywhere far from Brownsville.”
But for now “🍌we got to head home because ▨we have nowhere else to go,” the mom said — as the man who shot her daughter remains on the loose.
“I’m telling my husband I don’t feel safe going into theꦺ house,” said Bartlett, a 39-year-old home-health-care aide. 𝓀“I’m scared.”
Tiara was walking outside the Creative Minds Family Day Care Center on Riverdale Avenue with her dad around 6 p.m. Friday when she wa🔯s hit in the shoulder by a stray bullet. The shooter was apparently targeting another dad who was putting his 2-year-old son in the back of a c🀅ar, police have said.
Tiara’s shaken father told The Post outside Maimo🎀nides on Saturday that he was in disbelief ovꩵer the incident and had no clue who the shooter was.
“I never see him before in my life,” he said.
Barrett added Monday that her daughter doesn’t “understand what’s going on.”
The mom raged tha﷽t the criminal-justice system allows suspects to be dumped back on the street t🅰oo easily, including those caught with weapons.
“Tho𝓀se people, when they get caught, those people, all they do is release them,” Bartlett said. “People with illegal guns [need] to be put away. Why [are] they with a gun?
“The police have been helpful,” she adde𒆙d. “So far they found ꧑the vehicle the person was driving. They have a strong lead.”
The shooting came in the wake of other gunplay earlier in the week that left a 7-year-old girl wounded on Coney Island, also by a stray bullet.
Additional reporting by Catalina Gonella
