Baby Shot During Forsyth Standoff Has Died

CUMMING, GA — A baby girl authorities say was apparently shot by her father during a standoff in Forsyth County on Monday has died. She was 11 months old.

Deputies were called to the home, on Carleen Court in south Forsyth County, Monday afternoon by a woman who said her husband had threatened to shoot her and their young child with a handgun.

For the next three hours, deputies and a family member attempted to communicate with the man — identified Thursday as 34-year-old Salman Ashraf.

Some time before 8 p.m., deputies entered the home in an effort to leave a phone for the man to use to call them and to check on the baby, said sheriff's office spokesman Deputy Doug Rainwater.

When they did, they heard the little girl upstairs. The deputies, along with a SWAT team medic, got to the child and found her seriously injured from an apparent gunshot wound.

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At about the same time, deputies found Ashraf dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Rainwater said.

The baby girl was treated at the scene by a SWAT medic and rushed to a local hospital, where she had been listed in critical condition. From there, she was airlifted to an Atlanta hospital where she died, Rainwater said.

Ashfraf's wife and the girl's mother is staying with family members, Rainwater said Thursday.

Photo courtesy Forsyth County Sheriff's Office