Officials found a man in the driver’s seat with a gunshot wound and an 18-month-old girl in the car, unharmed.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A man crashed his car into a parked car after being shot with a child in the backseat, according to St. Petersburg police officers.
Officials said the incident happened shortly after 2 p.m. at the Robco Transmission and Auto on Emerson Avenue South. When rescue arrived, they found Tyrone Howard, 21, in the driver’s seat with a gunshot wound and an 18-month-old girl also in the car.
Howard died at the hospital, but the little girl was not injured, according to a news release.
Investigators are working to determine what happened, and no other information was released.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 727-893-7780 or text SPPD and a tip to TIP411.