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Police hunt for suspect in baby kidnapping and shooting of three others Police hunt for suspect in baby kidnapping and shooting of three others
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Police are searching for a man suspected of shooting three people inside a Southern California home and taking a three-week-old baby. A three-week-old girl is missing from a California home where the baby’s mother, father and uncle were found shot, police said on Sunday.
The Long Beach Police Department says officers responding to a call of a shooting just before 6 pm Saturday found two men and one woman, the baby’s mother, with gunshot wounds. The 10lb baby girl, named Eliza Delacruz, is the focus of an urgent police search. Police released a photo that showed the child sleeping on a red blanket with a white bow in her hair and wearing a ruffled white dress.
Police spokeswoman Marlene Arrona says the victims were hospitalized in critical but stable condition. Long Beach police were seeking an adult male in the shooting and have not said if the suspect is related to the missing infant. His motive was unknown.
Police say a 10lb baby girl named Eliza Delacrus was missing from the same home. Officers went to the residence on Saturday evening after receiving a call about the shooting and found the two brothers and the baby’s mother with gunshot wounds, police spokesman Marlene Arrona said.
Detectives believe a man suspected of shooting the three may have taken the newborn and run away. They did not release his name. One of the brothers is the father of the baby, she said.
Two of the victims remained hospitalised in critical but stable condition. The other gunshot victim was treated and released.