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In Detriot today, a little girl was shot while shielding her mother from a hail of bullets - taking into her little body most of the slugs - saving her mother's life.

As her mom's angry boyfriend opened fire, 7-year-old Alexis Goggins lunged from the back seat of the SUV and threw herself across her mom, crying, "Don't hurt my mother!"

In an undated photo provided by the Parker family, Seliethia Parker, left, 30, and her daughter, Alexis Goggins, 7, are shown. The 7-year-old is recovering from six gunshots to her face, one through her eye, from the gun in the hand of her mother's angry, jilted ex-boyfriend. (AP Photo/Parker family via AP)

Six bullets from the 9 mm handgun slammed into Alexis, piercing her right eye, the chin and jaw. Two bullets hit her mother grazing her head - entering her chest and stopped just short of an artery. Alexis' mother pulled through. But two weeks later, Alexis lies in critical condition.

"She was trying to save me," said her mother, Seliethia Parker, 30. "My baby is just an angel to her mother. I thought as the mother, I'd be saving my child. I never thought my daughter would be saving me." Alexis has undergone three operations since the shooting at Children's Hospital of Michigan.

Parker's former boyfriend, Calvin Tillie, a 29-year-old ex-convict on parole, was arrested and charged with 2 counts of assault with intent to commit murder, pkus other offenses. He could get life in prison. HOW ABOUT THE DEATH PENALTY?

Alexis was already a child with learning-disabilities. She lags behind other youngsters her age.

Parker met Tillie earlier this year and called it off after 3 months. He stalked her & popped up in the middle of the night. Shortly after midnight on Dec. 2, Alexis and her mother climbed into their friend Aisha Ford's vehicle for a late night birthday get-together for Ford's mother. The girl got into the back seat, and her mother took the front passenger seat.

Tillie, who had been lerking about outside the house in the shadows in extreme cold, jumped into the back of the SUV, next to Alexis, and forced Ford to drive at gunpoint for several harrowing minutes until the woman convinced him she needed to stop for gas. She tried to stall for time while pumping gas. As she and the station attendant called 911, several shots erupted from inside the vehicle. The girl had jumped toward her mother in the front seat.

Parker bolted from the SUV, screaming. Officers found Alexis curled beneath the steering wheel in a pool of blood. Tillie was arrested at the scene.

"She is doing much better," Parker said. "She opened up one eye. Everything seems to be going great."

In Alexis' special education classroom, her classmates have named a stuffed toy with pink ears "Hero." "We didn't want Alexis' spot to be vacant, so she's got a sweet bear to sit in her place until she comes back," said her teacher.

Alexis suffered a stroke before age 1 and has epilepsy. Her teacher showed off a journal revealing strides Alexis had made in writing over the past few months. What started as an illegible series of lines had evolved into distinct letters.

How much more can this little girl endure? Clearly she is a fighter... with a heart of gold and brave as can be. She knew no fear and stood firm in the face of a pure evil obsessed ex con. Many of us would have panicked or shut down in the face of a 9 mm handgun. This little girl knew enough to know that he aimed to kill her mother and she wasn't having it. Not in this life.

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