Baby dies after being shot five times as dad changes diaper

[joeybee12]

A 6-month-old baby has died after she was shot Monday while her father was changing her diaper.

After several surgeries, Jonylah Watkins passed away Tuesday morning, Chicago Pastor Corey Brooks confirmed.

Jonylah's father, identified by family members as 28-year-old Jonathan Watkins, is in stable condition. He was changing the little girl's diaper on the front passenger seat of the family van when the shooting occurred, police said.

"The city of Chicago should be outraged that a 6-month-old baby could be shot and killed in our city," Brooks said. "It's horrific."

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/12/17279475-baby-dies-after-being-shot-five-times-as-dad-changes-diaper?lite

[Swamp Lover]

1. I guess it's time to arm infants.

[Remmah2]

2. I agree.

Adults don't seem to be too smart.

[slackmaster]

3. I can't fathom the mind set of someone who could do something so cruel and callous

How could someone with a propensity to behave that way not already be dead or in jail?

[Recursion]

6. The shooter has probably been in jail before, and will probably be dead in not too many years

If the police know him, and he's at the level in the gang to be trying to kill someone, he's almost certainly been in jail already.

[slackmaster]

8. True. Most violent crimes are committed by repeat offenders who managed to slip through the cracks.

[Little Star]

4. That is so fucked up! Poor baby & her family. :(

[Drale]

5. I live in the south suburbs of Chicago

and on the train this morning I was listening to a group of people talk about people who they know that have committed crimes like it was no big deal. The "code of silence" on the street is not going to be broken until these people get it in their heads that breaking any law is wrong and if you see someone doing it you have to turn them in.

P.S. of course every rule has exceptions people smoking pot for example

[Recursion]

7. That's awful

I have no idea what I would do if I grew up in a place like that.

[HipChick]

9. Is this the same baby that was also shot in it's mother's womb

[Recursion]

11. Her mom was hit in the knee while pregnant; I don't think that the fetus was hit

Not like that makes it OK or anything.

[99Forever]

10. Imagine how much worse this...

... could have turned out if the shooter had only had access to a knife, instead of a gun!

[librechik]

12. dad was the target (gang related) Baby just got in the way.