SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Police say a 20-month-old boy has died from injuries sustained in a shooting in the city’s South Side.
Authorities say Rashad Walker Jr. was in his car seat in a minivan stopped on Coolidge Avenue around 4:30 p.m. Sunday when he was struck by at least one bullet from a barrage of shots.
Syracuse police Sgt. Tom Connellan tells The Post-Standard that the child, four months short of his second birthday, was taken to Upstate University Hospital by ambulance and died at about 6:45 p.m.
Connellan said the baby was probably not targeted in the shooting, but police had little information about the incident.
He says the shooting is under investigation.
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