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A gunman had fired an automatic rifle through the front of the house, leaving six bullet holes, said police.

Her mother and another person in the home were injured, said police.

Authorities said it is \"safe to assume\" the house was targeted, but a motive is not clear.

No arrests have been made in Nikolette's shooting, either.

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Brian Abernathy, the managing director of Philadelphia, was at the scene of Nikolette's killing.

He said when he looked at a home next door, he saw a little girl \"with her head resting on her hands, staring out the window. Just the look in her eyes will be something I'll always remember.\"

\"When you see kids who have to see this every day who have normalized it to some degree ... it's almost soul crushing,\" Abernathy told ABC News. \"It rips your heart out when you see babies caught up in senseless violence.\"

Abernathy said he's pleading with the Pennsylvania general assembly and U.S. Congress to pass \"common sense gun laws,\" including red flag laws and waiting periods.

Besides the initiative Johnson-Harrell is pushing for, Abernathy says the city has several major anti-violence programs in effect:

-- In the last year the city launched a community crisis intervention program in which peer specialists intervene on a nightly basis to try to understand what groups are arguing about and keep violence from erupting. Most of the specialists are from those communities, so they \"have a level of credibility,\" said deputy manager Garrett-Harley. \"This has begun to be really effective in deescalating situations.\"

-- The city has also expanded its youth violence reduction program which aims to keep 16 to 25 years old from getting further involved in crime. \"You have kids who are picking up guns because they don't expect to live past 20,\" said Abernathy.

-- Authorities have also improved coordinating intelligence in the most violent areas. The city is using data to identify geographic areas where crime is occurring regularly and to identify people who are known offenders, said Abernathy.

-- Also launched in the last year were targeted community investment grants to provide support for people working on the ground.

A $30,000 reward has been offered for information that helps solve either the little boy's shooting or Nikolette's killing. Anyone with information can call the tip line at 215-686-TIPS.

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