Police were able to rescue child, who is in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, before house caught fire with father still in it
A six-month-old baby is currently hospitalized after a man allegedly shot the infant several times during an armed home standoff in Surprise, Arizona, about 30 miles north-west of Phoenix.
At about 3am on Friday, the father of the child allegedly broke into the home where the child and mother lived, according to Surprise police. The child’s father did not live in the house, police said, adding that the man held the mother and child hostage for several hours before the mother managed to escape.
According to police, the mother contacted a construction crew and requested that they call 911. They added that she had minor injuries and it remains unclear how she managed to escape.
the man shot his kid, not the cops? Big if true.
How in the hell is that baby still alive after being shot multiple times? That’s amazing enough for an adult but a baby is so compact and fragile comparatively. That’s pretty incredible from a physiological perspective.
Babies are both very fragile and very resilient. For example, bones don’t start hardening and fusing for several years, so they can take a lot of bumps and such. I haven’t read the article, but it’s possible that the wounds were just grazing.
I’m sitting in the pediatric ICU with my 1-month old child. Yesterday, she went into respiratory arrest and they called a code blue on her. I thought she was dying in my arms, and I’m still shaking with fear, although she’s doing better. I CANNOT FATHOM any father putting their child into such harm. I hope, with all my heart, the child recovers fully, and the father died (or dies) slowly, screaming.
The uh… The headline, man.
What a fucking title. I guess that’s the best we can expect from the guardian.
People wouldn’t click on it if it didn’t infer the police did the shooting, right?
The term police or cops wasnt even mentioned in the title, it was our own biases that brought them into it.
Yeah. But they knew. This kind of implication is an art form these days.
What the hell was this bastard’s endgame here? Was he deranged, on drugs, mentally ill, or irrationally angry at the woman? What a fucking disaster.
… Surprise!!
