Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says that Jayleen Jones, the two-year-old girl shot in the leg outside her apartment complex in Coney Island on Sunday, was the unfortunate victim in a vengeful crossfire. Kelly says suspects Devin Dortch and Vincent Carmona "were shooting at another individual, who supposedly was a robbery victim earlier in the day. Whatever dispute they had, they came back to settle it." Jones was riding her bike in the courtyard of the O'Dwyer Gardens Houses at 10 p.m. when the gunfire started, and is recovering at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Medical Center after being shot in the leg.
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