According to the New York Post, the US police said that on the evening of January 19, local time, an 11-month-old baby girl in the Bronx district of New York City was hit in the face by a stray bullet while sitting in a parked car with her mother.
American police officer at the scene of the shooting Source: US media
The baby girl was secured in the car seat at the time, and at about 6:45 p.m., a male suspect began shooting at another man, the source said. One of the bullets hit the baby in the cheek. Police said the baby girl was rushed to St. Banabas Hospital in critical but stable condition before being transferred to another regional hospital.
Image source: US media
One witness said, "I heard three gunshots, and at first I thought it was something else, I didn't think it was a gun. My brother said he saw a woman crying in her arms, covered in blood. The source said the baby's mother was not injured.
Surveillance video showed the suspect holding a gun chasing another man near the car parked near the baby girl's car. Police have not yet arrested anyone.
Local people photographed the police officers
The report mentioned that the violence that occurred on the night of the 19th was just one of many shootings in New York that caused injuries or deaths in the past year. A 37-year-old woman was shot and killed in an exchange of fire between two gangs outside her home on March 12 last year; a 4-year-old girl and two other victims were hit by stray bullets in Times Square on May 8 last year, when a man argued with three others and fired wildly into the crowd in the late afternoon; less than two months later, Samuel Poulin, a 21-year-old tourist, was hit by a stray bullet outside a hotel, suspected to be a 16-year-old gunman; and August 23 last year A 58-year-old man preparing to travel to New Jersey was hit by a stray bullet outside the station. (Editor: HHJ)