#Comedian Rickey Smiley’s daughter Aaryn shot in road rage incident

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Comedian and radio host Rickey Smiley’s 19-year-old daughter was shot in a Texas road rage incident and was undergoing surgery Monday .

Smiley, 51, fought back tears as he revealed on his Birmingham, Alabama morning radio show that his youngest daughter, Aaryn, was struck on her way to a Whataburger in Houston on Sunday night.

“I’m just so angry right now,” Smiley said.

“I go to bed around 8:30 or 9 o’ clock, and I woke up to text messages,” he continued.

“The fact that she’s laying up in the hospital and probably going to have to go into surgery … She’s just crying, she’s scared, and I just hate it.”

The teen, a student at Baylor University, was caught between two people firing at each other while waiting at a red light and was hit three times, Smiley said.

She was in surgery at a Houston hospital on Monday, he later tweeted.

“Thanks for your prayers or our daughter,” he wrote. “I really appreciate the support!”

In a YouTube video titled “Thank God for Protecting My Daughter,” Smiley vented his frustration at gun violence around the country over the holiday weekend.

“Today could have been different,” he said. “I could have been at the funeral home … with the families [of those] killed in DC, in Atlanta and all the people killed in Chicago.”

“Someone has got to bury their child,” Smiley continued. “I’m lucky mine is still living.”