SEATTLE (AP) – A 1-year-old girl who was shot in the head in a drive-by shooting outside Seattle has died.
A spokeswoman for Harborview Medical Center says the girl was brain dead and care was withdrawn Saturday night.
Police say the baby was shot in the head Thursday afternoon while sitting in a car seat in the back of a silver Chevrolet Impala at an intersection in Kent, Washington. Her parents were in the front seat when police say a black car pulled alongside, and the driver and a passenger in that vehicle opened fire before driving off.
Authorities have said they don’t believe the shooting was random.
Detectives in Kent initially suggested road rage as a motive, but Cmdr. Jarod Kasner told The Seattle Times on Friday that police no longer think that’s the case.
“This does not appear to be a random incident” he said in an email Friday night, adding police were following all leads and consider the shooting a top priority. He declined to release any other details.
The baby was shot in the head Thursday afternoon while sitting in a car seat in the back of a silver Chevrolet Impala, Kent police spokeswoman Melanie Robinson said.
The shooting took place at an intersection near an apartment complex.
Linda Johnston, who lives nearby, ran outside after she heard gunshots.
“I was sitting in my bedroom here and heard the shots. ‘Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam,” she told Seattle television station KOMO. “The baby was on the ground, and other people were doing CPR on the baby, and the mother was in hysterics and the dad was in hysterics, too.”