HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — A 9-month-old baby girl was caught in the crossfire of a shootout in Henrico on Wednesday evening, Crime Insider sources tell Jon Burkett.
Crime Insider sources say the incident began when a sedan hit a pickup truck near Vawter Avenue. The sedan started to drive away after the crash, according to sources, but the truck followed.
The baby's mother, who was in the pickup truck, explained they followed the sedan to exchange information after the crash.
She then noticed someone coming from behind a home with a gun in her hand.
Crime Insider sources say a woman in the truck was yelling, "I've got a baby in the car, I've got a baby in the car," but shots were fired anyway.
"I was screaming, 'It's a baby in the truck,'" she told CBS 6. "She passed the gun to her boyfriend or whoever he was and he started to fire at the truck. I crawled out of the passenger seat and grabbed my child and started walking down the alley."
A man in the truck returned fire, hitting the person in the sedan in the leg.
"It's traumatizing because I just had her," the baby's mother said. "Lord, I pray that I don't ever lose my child to something like this. It all could have been totally different if you would have just stopped when we tried to flag you down. You already hit the car."
The person in the sedan was taken to an area hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.
Neighbors tell Jon Burkett they heard at least eight or nine shots.
The investigation is ongoing.
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