GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio — A 6-month-old girl and her father were shot in Garfield Heights Thursday afternoon, according to Garfield Heights Police. After negotiations at an address nearby Thursday evening, police took three suspects into custody.
Around 5 p.m., the infant and her parents were on a walk on Langton Avenue when three young men in a gold sedan fired shots along the street and struck the baby girl twice and the father once, according to police.
“We were sitting in there just watching some TV, and we heard pop pop, pop, pop, pop,” said Mike Roberston, who lives on Langton Avenue.
The mother was not hit by any bullets.
“I saw that there was a young woman, and she had a baby, and the baby was shot,” Robertson said.
Robertson said one of his neighbors stepped in to help the infant.
“My neighbor a couple doors down, the woman gave her the baby, and she held it until the police came, and then they put the baby in the car and rushed it to the hospital,” Robertson said.
The infant was life-flighted to MetroHealth Medical Center, and the father was transferred to Marymount Hospital.
The father was shot in his left hip and treated for his injury, police said in an update Friday. He is in stable condition. The infant remains hospitalized but is now in stable condition.
News 5 stayed on the scene for hours while police looked for evidence and interviewed neighbors. Because of the amount of shell casings, police said they thought the suspects were shooting from a car all the way down the street.
“It sounded like two clips full I mean, they actually emptied one, and there was a pause for a minute, so that’s when everybody just kind of ran to the windows, and then we heard another flurry,” Roberston said.
Robertson said his home was hit by two of those bullets.
“It looks like one of the bullets ricocheted off their window and then went into the side of my house, and there was another one that was a direct hit into the house, so it looks like two bullets got my house, luckily they didn’t go through though.”
Police called it "neighborhood beef" that led to the shooting. Several hours after the shooting, News 5 was still on the scene when police officers with tactical gear were seen on Wadsworth Avenue, one street over from Langton Avenue.
Families were asked to shelter in place while police negotiated and eventually entered a home.
“I just pray for the baby, I hope that the baby’s OK,” Robertson said.
News 5 is still working to confirm the relation of those arrests to the shooting, but police do confirm three suspects were found on Wadsworth Avenue and were taken into custody.
Three 22-year-old men Khayree Sullivan, Marvin Bell, and Kameren White were charged with with three counts of Felonious Assault.
