A child was hospitalized Sunday evening, Feb. 25, after she was struck by gunfire while in the back seat of a car in Santa Ana, authorities said, with a search underway for the shooter.
Santa Ana Police were investigating on Spurgeon Street on Sunday night after a child was reported to have been shot in a car. (Photo by OnScene.TV)
The young girl was admitted to a hospital after a bullet struck her while she was sitting in the back of her parents’ car in the area near 17th and Spurgeon streets, according to Santa Ana Police Department Officer Natalie Garcia.
It was not immediately known where exactly the child had been injured in the shooting reported just before 9 p.m., though authorities warned residents to avoid the area along Main Street between 15th and 17th streets. The area of 17th and Spurgeon was closed for the investigation.
The child was in critical condition at the hospital Sunday night.
Video news agency OnScene.TV provided video showing crime scene tape was set up by police on Spurgeon Street.
Police were also seen Sunday night at CHOC — Children’s Hospital Of Orange County in Orange, where a white sedan was parked at an entrance and surrounded by crime scene tape.
Information on a possible suspect, and whether it was a car-to-car shooting, was not immediately available and anyone with information was urged to call authorities, Garcia said.
For some, Sunday’s shooting brought back painful memories of children struck by gunfire while riding in cars in recent year.
A 4-year-old boy, Gor Adamyan, was killed in a car-to-car shooting in Lancaster in December.
And Aiden Leos, 6, was fatally shot on the 55 Freeway in Orange as his mother drove him to kindergarten in 2021.
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