Man Held in Shooting of His 9-Month-Old Daughter

A Los Angeles man was arrested on suspicion of shooting his 9-month-old daughter during a confrontation with the child’s mother and another woman, police said Monday.

The toddler, whose name was withheld, was in stable condition after surgery, according to a spokesman for Long Beach Memorial Medical Center.

Epifanio Medina Gomez, 33, was booked for assault with a deadly weapon, willful child cruelty, shooting into an occupied vehicle and discharging a firearm after the shooting at 11:30 p.m. Sunday in the 1400 block of Pine Avenue, Long Beach police said.

Dolores Baeza, 24, of Long Beach, who lived at the Pine Avenue residence, was booked on suspicion of being an accessory to a crime, police said. Baeza allegedly hid the handgun used in the shooting.

The shooting occurred after Gomez’s wife and her sister, with the child in their vehicle, followed him to Baeza’s residence in Long Beach, police said.

They confronted Gomez and the wife’s sister started taking pictures, police said. Gomez fired in her direction, wounding the child, who was still inside the vehicle.

Gomez was being held on $250,000 bail. Baeza was being held in lieu of $15,000 bail.