‘She was just a baby’: Mother of girl, 13, fatally shot mourns the loss of her child

Her mother, Marie Hunt, chose that name because doctors had told her that she wasn’t able to have children.

“She popped up out of nowhere,” the mother said. “She was so special. She was.”

On Friday, Marie Hunt lost her miracle child.

The girl was hanging out with some friends, walking around Broadway, when she was struck by gunfire at about 12:30 a.m.. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Buffalo police are looking into the possibility that a stolen Kia vehicle may have been involved in the shooting.

Friday morning, a handful of red rose petals were strewn across the spot where Miracle Hunt died – a patch of grass on the side of The Forge apartments on Mortimer Street and Broadway.

Marie Hunt said she learned the unimaginable news from a friend of her daughter’s.

“She said she got shot,” the mother said.

Friday afternoon, Marie Hunt sat in her car with friends and loved ones outside her home.

“I’m numb. I don’t know how to feel,” she said. “I just keep thinking about her. She was just a baby.”

Miracle Hunt was the oldest of three siblings, said her mother, who looks after three other children, too, and works in collections.

Her daughter had a bubbly personality, Marie Hunt said.

“She was always happy, despite whatever was going on, you were going to get a laugh out of her. She was going to be happy. She was going to smile. She just loved life, regardless,” she said.

Miracle Hunt loved clothes and fashion. Her mother shared a photo of her posing in a black, yellow and denim outfit, her nails elegantly manicured.

“She loved to dress. She knew how to color-coordinate the mess out…