TOPEKA, Kan. — Police in Topeka are investigating an early-morning shooting that left a 1-year-old baby critically injured.
Television station KSNT reports that the shooting happened around 4 a.m. Tuesday, when someone riddled a home near Eighth Street and Southeast Sherman Avenue with gunfire. Police say one of the shots hit a baby inside the home. Investigators report 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 have been announced.
