Baby shot while father changed diaper in Chicago
14 March 2013 8:13 AM IST
A six month old baby who was shot in Chicago while her father was changing her diaper on the seat of a parked minivan has died, police said on Tuesday.
The shooting during the day on Monday comes as Chicago struggles to stem an epidemic of gang violence that helped push the city’s murder rate up 16 per cent to 506 people in 2012. The city has already logged more than 60 murders and 250 shootings so far this year.
‘The baby was in the car with her father when someone walked up and shot the baby and the father,’ Chicago police spokesman Mike Sullivan told AFP.
‘Nobody's in custody at this time.’ The family was no stranger to gun violence before this particular tragedy.
Little Jonylah Watkins’s 20-year-old mother was shot in the leg last spring while she was pregnant, the Chicago Tribune reported.
‘She’s very distraught, she’s in a lot of pain,’ family friend Pastor Brooks said.
The shooting during the day on Monday comes as Chicago struggles to stem an epidemic of gang violence that helped push the city’s murder rate up 16 per cent to 506 people in 2012. The city has already logged more than 60 murders and 250 shootings so far this year.
‘The baby was in the car with her father when someone walked up and shot the baby and the father,’ Chicago police spokesman Mike Sullivan told AFP.
‘Nobody's in custody at this time.’ The family was no stranger to gun violence before this particular tragedy.
Little Jonylah Watkins’s 20-year-old mother was shot in the leg last spring while she was pregnant, the Chicago Tribune reported.
‘She’s very distraught, she’s in a lot of pain,’ family friend Pastor Brooks said.
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