LIBERTY TWP., Ohio — A 6-month-old is in critical condition after being shot in the head early Saturday morning, the Butler County Sheriff's Office said.
Deputies responded to the 6800 block of Dutchview Court in Liberty Township around 1:50 a.m. for reports of a shooting.
There, they found a 6-month-old infant had been shot in the head. The child was transported to UC West Chester Hospital and remains in critical condition, the sheriff's office said.
The sheriff's office said Mia Desiree Harris, the child's grandmother, fled the scene before deputies arrived. According to an incident report from the Butler County Sheriff's Office, when police found Harris she was driving the wrong way on I-75 and refused to stop for deputies. She eventually led deputies back to the home where the shooting happened and was arrested, the report says.
Harris also shot at several family members before intentionally shooting the child, the sheriff's office said.
"I'm saddened for the family and angered that a child was harmed this way in our community," Liberty Township board of trustees vice president Tom Minnear said.
According to three police reports, Harris also punched one person, whose name is redacted from the document, in the face before firing a gun through a locked bedroom door multiple times; police wrote in the document that Harris then broke down the door. She tried to shoot another person inside at close range, but missed, according to one of the police reports.
She then shot the baby, lying on the bed, in the head at close range, the third police report says.
Harris has been charged with three counts of felonious assault. She is currently being held at the Butler County Jail.
She appeared in court Monday for her arraignment, where the judge ordered her to be held on a $1.5 million bond.
