Tyler Perry has offered to pay the funeral expenses for an 8-year-old girl who was fatally shot in Atlanta over the weekend, a representative for the actor and filmmaker confirmed Wednesday. "I’m outraged today because I’d rather be paying for 8-year-old Secoriea Turner’s college than her funeral," Perry said in a statement to People magazine. "When does this end?” Secoriea was riding in a Jeep Cherokee with her mother and another adult on Saturday night when they encountered "a makeshift roadblock that was manned by numerous armed individuals," Atlanta police Lt.
Pete Malecki said. When the driver tried to go around the roadblock, shots were fired and the girl was hit, Malecki told reporters at a news conference Tuesday.
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