After a shootout from a car with police in Virginia, a 6-month-old in a car seat survives while the child’s father, the gunman, and mother were killed by return police fire.
The surviving child’s father, Angelo Delano Perry, 35, was found to have an extensive criminal history and the child’s mother, India Kager, 28, was a postal carrier from College Park, MD. When police fired 30 rounds at the couple, the two were shot to death outside of a7-Eleven in Virginia Beach, according to Cleveland.com.
The report says that Perry began shooting at the police first and when they returned fire, they were not aware that there was a baby, Roman, in the back seat of the car.
The call for police to the 7-Eleven came in at 11:25 p.m. on Saturday when Perry, a suspect in a homicide investigation, was spotted in a car that was under surveillance. When officers attempted to approach the vehicle, shots were fired from inside, but no officers were injured during the shootout.
“He was a person of interest in a homicide case. And we did know that he was armed, we knew that he was heavily armed. We did have credible information that he was going to commit a violent act in our city,” Virginia Beach Police Chief Jim Cervera reported.
The report said that Kager was in the driver’s seat and Perry in the passenger’s seat and police said that there target was Perry, and that Kager was unintentionally hit and killed. The shootout lasted only 15 seconds, after which the police approached the vehicle finding the injured infant in the back seat. The child was immediately placed in the care of Child Protective Services.
Kager’s mother, Gina N. Best, said that she was completely innocent.
“Did they find any weapons on India?” Best said. “Did she pose a threat? Why did [police] shoot into a car with a baby and woman who had nothing to do with their investigation?”
There were a total of two guns found inside the vehicle after the shooting. At this time, all of the officers involved in the shooting have been put on administrative leave while the incident continues to be investigated.
