A baby girl is in critical condition at a Seattle hospital after she was shot in the head in an apparent drive-by shooting, police said Friday, according to The Seattle Times.
The Thursday shooting was initially reported as a road rage incident after a black car open fired on a Chevy Impala carrying a 1-year-old girl in the back seat and her parents in the front. But on Friday, police in Kent, Wash., said they are no longer pursuing that theory.
"Although preliminary information indicated road rage, new information gathered doesn't show that as the true cause," Police spokeswoman Sergeant Jarod Kasner told The Seattle Times.
The Chevy Impala was at an intersection near the Lake Fenwick Estate apartments in Kent when a black vehicle pulled up next to it, police said. Both the driver and the passenger of the black car open fired on the Chevy, striking the child in the head.
Witnesses said the scene was utter chaos after the alleged shooters drove off.
"I was sitting in my bedroom here and heard the shots. 'Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam," nearby resident Linda Johnston told KOMO News.
"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."
Investigators did not release any more details about the shooting. The child remains at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
