Man Shoots New Parents, Takes Baby Girl

Police are now saying that two of the three people shot in a Long Beach home were the parents of the newborn baby that was taken by the shooter.

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 at about 5:50 p.m. Saturday to a shooting call in the 100 block of West 51st Street, Marlene Arrona of the Long Beach Police Department said. Arrona said police do not yet have a suspect, and they don’t know if there is any relationship between the shooter and the victims.

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

The two men are brothers, and one is the father of the missing infant, she said. The woman is the mother of the taken child.

“Two victims remain in critical but stable condition at local hospitals. The third victim has been treated and released, she said.

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.

• City News Service
• Patch Editor Paige Austin contributed to this report.
• Photo: Three-week-old Eliza Delacruz