Girl, 3, Dies of Wounds After Being Shot in Car : Crime: The child is one of a number of recent juvenile victims of violence. She is the first to be mortally struck.

A 3-year-old Inglewood girl died Monday after being wounded by a gunman who fired from the back of a pickup truck into a car in which the child was riding.

A 6-year-old boy and two young men in the car escaped injury, but one of the bullets struck the 3-year-old in the forehead.

The shooting occurred about 9 p.m. Sunday at the intersection of Prairie Avenue and Century Boulevard in Inglewood. Enriquez Ramos, the driver of the car who was believed to be a relative of the 3-year-old, rushed the wounded child to nearby Centinela Hospital. She died there late Monday afternoon.

Inglewood police say they have no motive for the shooting and do not believe it was gang-related. They refused to release the child’s name because she is a juvenile.

Ramos was in the left turn lane at the intersection behind a dark blue pickup, police said, when a Latino male in the bed of the truck began firing a gun.

The 3-year-old is among a number of children who have recently fallen victim to violence on Southland streets, but she is the first to die from her wounds.

Friday night, a 2-year-old boy was wounded in the head in a drive-by shooting in Altadena. Anthony James Atkins was sitting next to his mother in a car when five or six rounds of bullets were fired from a passing car. The child’s condition was upgraded from critical to good Monday at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena.

In Los Angeles, an 8-year-old boy shot in the head Oct. 1 while he sat in his family’s car is still in a coma. A 12-year-old boy was shot in the chest Oct. 12 while walking home from school. An 8-year-old girl was shot in the back Oct. 22 as she played outside her apartment building.

On Oct. 11, a 15-month-old boy was burned by hot soup by gang members who broke into his parents’ apartment. The attackers were angry that the parents had notified police about drug dealing in the neighborhood.

Times staff writer Anthony Millican contributed to this story.