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Baby shot while father changed diaper on Chicago street

 
Published on Mar 13, 2013
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A makeshift memorial is seen in Chicago, Tuesday, March 12, 2013, at the site where 6-month-old girl Jonylah Watkins, and her father, a known gang member, were shot Monday, March 11. The girl, who was shot five times, died Tuesday morning. She became the latest homicide victim of a bloody gang war in Chicago when a man approached a van in which her father was changing her diaper and opened fire. Her father, Jonathan Watkins, was in serious but stable condition. -- PHOTO: AP

CHICAGO (AFP) - A six month old baby who was shot in Chicago while her father was changing her diaper on the seat of a parked minivan has died, police said Tuesday.

The shooting in broad daylight Monday comes as Chicago struggles to stem an epidemic of gang violence that helped push the city's murder rate up 16 per cent to 506 people in 2012. The city has already logged more than 60 murders and 250 shootings so far this year.

"The baby was in the car with her father when someone walked up and shot the baby and the father," Chicago police spokesman Mike Sullivan told AFP.

"Nobody's in custody at this time." The family was no stranger to gun violence before this particular tragedy. Little Jonylah Watkins's 20-year-old mother was shot in the leg last spring while she was pregnant, the Chicago Tribune reported.

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