WANTED: Police are searching for 45-year-old Santos Diaz after a 10-month-old girl was shot following an argument in Kensington
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia police are searching for a 45-year-old man wanted in connection to the shooting of a 10-month-old baby girl in the city’s Kensington neighborhood over the weekend. Police say a verbal and physical altercation broke out at a home on the 2000 block of East Ontario Street Sunday morning after a family was celebrating a wedding.
Officers were called to the home around 10:40 a.m. and found the baby girl suffering a gunshot wound to the left hand. The baby was transported to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children where she is listed in stable condition. The mother tells CBS3 she was holding her baby when shots were fired and had she not run and ducked for cover, she fears the situation could have been a much different story.
Police say a second victim, a 17-year-old Hispanic man suffered a graze wound to the right leg in the shooting but did not require any medical treatment.A verbal/physical altercation broke out with the suspect and police say, at that time, Diaz fired several gunshots at the family before fleeing the scene.She says her mother got married on Saturday and the reception was at the house.If you have any information regarding the suspect, contact the Shooting Investigation Group at 215-686-8270.
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