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Topeka shooting leaves baby critically injured

Posted at 8:49 AM, Feb 02, 2021
and last updated 2021-02-02 09:49:06-05

TOPEKA, Kan. — Police in Topeka are investigating an early-morning shooting Tuesday that left a 1-year-old baby critically injured.

The shooting happened around 4 a.m. Tuesday, when someone riddled a home near Eighth Street and Southeast Sherman Avenue with gunfire, television station KSNT reported. Police said one of the shots hit a baby inside the home.

Investigators reported they found about two dozen bullet casings in the street outside the home. Officers called to the scene found a family leaving the home with the baby and rushed the child in critical condition to an area hospital.

The names of the baby and family members were not immediately released, and no arrests were announced at an early-morning news conference police held Tuesday after the shooting.