A 10-year-old girl fatally wounded when a 35-year-old man opened fire at the Baldwin Park home of his estranged wife’s family was identified Wednesday.
The girl had been found with a gunshot wound on Nov. 17 and taken to a hospital in critical condition. Homicide detectives with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department received notification Tuesday that the child was pronounced dead.
The Los Angeles County Office of Medical Examiner identified her Wednesday as Mia Jiang of San Gabriel, and said she suffered from a “penetrating gunshot wound” to her head.
Officers with the Baldwin Park Police Department responded just before 5 a.m. Nov. 17 to a home in the 12700 block of Royston Street, two blocks east of the San Gabriel River (605) Freeway, where they were met by two men and a boy who said a shooting had occurred inside the residence, according to the sheriff’s department.
Inside the home, deputies found a man and a woman — both 61 — fatally shot.
Those victims were identified by the medical examiner as Qiufu Jiang and his wife, Yulan Wang.
“Homicide investigators identified Qihao Jin, a 35-year-old male Asian, as the suspect,” sheriff’s officials said in a statement. “Investigators learned suspect Jin targeted the location of his estranged wife’s family. He entered the residence armed with a firearm and shot the victims.
“Suspect Jin fled the location westbound on Royston Street in a vehicle. Suspect Jin’s estranged wife was not at the location when this incident occurred.”
Investigators tracked the car through a license-plate reader and Anaheim Police Department officers found it in the 100 block of Vermont Avenue, near Anaheim Boulevard, with Jin inside at about 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 17, according to Sgt. Matt Sutter of the Anaheim Police Department.
Jin was pronounced dead at the scene from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Sheriff’s Information Bureau.