A child was hospitalized Sunday evening, Feb. 25, after she was struck by gunfire while in the backseat of a car in Santa Ana, authorities said, with a search underway for the suspected shooter.
The young girl was admitted to a hospital after a bullet struck her while she was sitting in the back of her parents’ car in the area near 17th and Spurgeon streets, according to Santa Ana Police Department Officer Natalie Garcia. It was not immediately known where exactly the child had been injured, though authorities warned residents to avoid the area along Main Street between 15th and 17th streets.
The child was in critical condition at the hospital Sunday night.
Video news agency OnScene.TV provided video show crime scene tape was set up by police on Spurgeon Street.
Police were seen Sunday night at CHOC — Children’s Hospital Of Orange County in Orange, where a white sedan was parked at an entrance and surrounded by crime scene tape.
Information on a possible suspect, and whether it was a car-to-car shooting was not immediately available and anyone with information was urged to call authorities, Garcia said.
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