Crime & Safety

Man Shoots 3 People and Takes Newborn from Long Beach Home

Police believe a man who shot three people and made off with a 3-week-old baby girl is still on the loose.

Three people were found shot inside a home in Long Beach today and detectives believe a man suspected of shooting them is on the loose with a 3-week-old girl missing from the residence, police said.

Officers were dispatched about 5:50 p.m. to a shooting call in the 100 block of West 51st Street, Marlene Arrona of the Long Beach Police Department said.

The victims -- two men and a woman -- were taken to a hospital in critical but stable condition, Arrona said.

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Detectives believe a man suspected of shooting the victims may have taken the child, a 10-pound girl named Eliza Delacruz.

Police asked that the child be turned in to a safe location and urged anyone with information to call the LBPD’s communications center at (562) 435- 6711.

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