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WTF! 6-MONTH-OLD BABY GIRL DIES AFTER GETTING SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES IN CHICAGO!

A Chicago family is mourning the tragic death of a 6-month-old girl who was shot multiple times as her father changed her diaper on Monday.

Johnylah Watkins passed away on Tuesday morning, a day after a gunman opened fire on her and her father in the Woodland neighborhood on the South Side, Chicago Pastor Corey Brooks told NBC Chicago.

“The city of Chicago should be outraged that a 6-month-old baby could be shot and killed in our city," Brooks told the local station. "It's horrific."

Johnylah was struck five times, in her thigh, shoulder, lung, liver and bowels.

Her father, 28-year-old Jonathan Watkins, remains in serious, but stable, condition at Northwestern Medical Hospital. He was hit in the cheek, leg and buttocks as he leaned over to change the infant’s diaper in his car.

A police source told DNAinfo that Jonathan is known member of the Gangster Disciples street gang. Superintendent Garry McCarthy said he is not sure whether Jonathan, who has an extensive criminal history, will cooperate with authorities.

"He's in a lot of pain," McCarthy said, according to the Chicago Tribune, adding that it appears the shooting was gang-related and Jonathan was "exclusively" the target.

Authorities are now hunting for the gunman, who reportedly fled the scene in a blue conversion van. McCarthy said they do not have any concrete leads.

Brooks said the child’s mother, Judy Young, is heartbroken.

"We're going to find who did this and make sure they are brought to justice," he told NBC Chicago. "We're not going to be afraid. We're going to take back our neighborhood."

Brooks, a pastor at New Beginnings Church in Woodlawn, said the church is offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the shooter.

Relatives say this is the second shooting the family has endured, according to DNAinfo. Young was shot several months ago while she was pregnant with Johnylah.

"It's too much shooting over there," the baby's grandmother Maryann Young told the Chicago Tribune. "I'm trying to get my kids out of there."

Monday's shooting is the latest episode of violence to take place in Chicago, which has been at the center of a national debate over gun control after it saw more than 40 homicides in January — the deadliest January in the city in more than a decade.

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