A 7-month-old girl was killed when an Ohio man who kidnapped his girlfriend’s baby and fled in a Camaro sped into a home after police tried to pull him over, authorities said.
Johnathan Baker, 23, allegedly took the girl after a dispute with his girlfriend Tuesday in the town of North Baltimore, the police chief in Tiffin, about 90 miles southwest of Cleveland, said in a statement on Wednesday.
Hours after the fatal crash, the Seneca County Sheriff’s Office said the man who abducted the child “felt homicidal and suicidal,” adding, “He also claimed to have killed the baby.”
After the local police department sent out a “look out” alert, an off-duty officer in Tiffin, about 30 miles away, spotted the Camaro and provided its location to responding officers and agents, the bureau said. of the bailiff
As a deputy and deputy approached the car, it sped “at high speed and erratically left the road striking a house at speed,” the sheriff’s office said.
No one was home, Tiffin Police Chief David Pauly said.
Authorities broke the rear window of the vehicle and recovered the baby, who was bleeding and whose breathing was shallow, the sheriff’s office said.
The girl and Baker were taken by ambulance to a local hospital, where the baby was pronounced dead shortly after, Pauly said. Baker was taken to Toledo and remains in critical condition, Pauly said.
It was unclear what charges Baker might face. Pauly said the investigation is in its early stages and did not respond to a request for comment.
