Baby Girl Shot In The Head Lying In Her Cot

Police are hunting a gunman who shot dead a one-year-old girl as she lay in her cot in the gang-ridden Los Angeles suburb of Compton.The suspect got out of a car and fired at a converted garage where the child lived with her parents.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said its deputies found the infant with a gunshot wound to her head after they were called to the home at 7pm on Tuesday.
A witness told the Los Angeles Times she heard several gunshots, and the girl's mother, Blanche Wandick, screaming: "They shot my baby."
The infant's tearful father was seen emerging from the garage with the little girl in his arms.
According to the newspaper, homicide detectives believe the 24-year-old father, an admitted local gang member, may have been the intended target.
The victim was named as Autumn Johnson.
Police transported her in a patrol car to hospital, where she died from her injuries.
Cornell Patton, Autumn's great-uncle, told KTLA-TV: "An innocent little girl lost her life yesterday over some foolishness.