Infant Taken From Mother at Gunpoint
A 3 1/2-week-old girl was kidnaped at gunpoint from her Riverside home Tuesday by a woman who gained entrance to the house by claiming that her car had broken down, police said.
Sharon Howard, 31, told police that a woman standing about 5-feet, 10-inches tall and weighing about 190 pounds came to her door in the 1000 block of Minerva Court at about 10:30 a.m. She said her car had stopped running and asked to use the telephone.
Pulled Revolver
Once inside, the woman pulled a revolver and ordered Howard and her 7-year-old son into separate rooms, police said. When the woman left, Howard returned to her front room and realized that her daughter, Lauren Nicole, had been abducted.
The baby was wearing pink terry cloth pajamas with a cartoon character on the front.
Police are searching for a 1970s model compact station wagon. Witnesses were able to obtain a partial California license plate number: 011 JB.
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