7-Month-Old Ohio Baby Riding in Car with Dad Is Killed in Drive-By Shooting

Desire Hughes.Photo: Toledo Police Department/Facebook

A devastated Ohio father and his family are mourning the loss of his 7-month-old daughter who was shot and killed while riding in a car in Toledo, say police.

On Wednesday night Desire Hughes was riding in a car with her father, 20-year-old Jeremiah Hughes, when occupants in another vehicle sprayed his car with bullets, the Toledo Police Department said.

Desire was struck in the chest and later pronounced dead at the hospital,News 24 reports.

“It just doesn’t make any sense,” she continued. “I don’t have any understanding about it to know that babies are dying at the hands of guns. And it’s not guns. It’s the people behind the guns that’s killing our babies.”

Toledo police are searching for the suspects.

They are asking anyone with home security footage or who saw anything suspicious to call Crime Stoppers at 419-255-1111.

source: people.com