Shock in the United States: One-year-old baby was shot dead in a car with his family

Police and the city of Washington DC have asked their neighbors for help in locating the person who shot and killed a one-year-old baby in a “heinous crime.”

The little Carmelo Duncan He was sitting in his child seat in the back of a car with his father and brother. On Wednesday around 9:30 p.m., someone opened fire on the vehicle. The little received several hits, one of them in the head, according to the metropolitan police.

The attack occurred at the intersection of Central Avenue and Southern Avenue, southeast of the city.

The 15-month-old baby was transferred in critical condition to a hospital, where he died. His father and brother were unharmed.

Authorities are offering a reward of up to $ 60,000 to anyone who helps catch those responsible.

Police Chief Peter Newsham said officers were looking for a dark gray van with tinted windows that was seen speeding through the area, although it is not known whether the vehicle is involved in crime.

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“It’s a very busy thoroughfare here in the city,” Newsham said. “If anyone was there, if you saw something, please call us,” he said.

“We will do everything to ensure that justice is done for this child and his family,” said the police chief.

DC Capital Mayor Muriel Bowser also tweeted about the crime. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the angel we have lost, his loved ones and those who are going through the agony of this terrible loss.”

“We cannot tolerate this senseless gun violence, we must come together to discuss how to eradicate it,” the director said in a statement.

Carmelo is the youngest victim of gun violence in the U.S. capital to date this year. With this baby some 187 people were killed this year in Washington DC, the highest number in 15 years, according to the channel Telemundo.

Dozens of residents staged a procession through the streets of southeast Washington Thursday night in memory of Carmelo.

“We cry, we do the hashtags, we bury the babies and then the phone calls stop and we repeat the cycle,” protester Darrell Gaston told the channel. Wusa9. Gaston formed “The Gerald Project” after his 15-year-old godson, Gerald Watson, was gunned down on the city streets.

John Ayala of the community group “The Guardian Angels” said he wanted the cycle of violence to end. He also lost his 11-year-old grandson Davon McNeal to gunfire over the summer. “They don’t care about life,” Ayala said of Duncan’s murderers.