SUISUN CITY, Calif. (AP) — A newborn was in critical but stable condition Tuesday after his teenage father abandoned him in a Northern California strip-mall parking lot, police said.
The father, Daniel Mitchell, 18, drove into the lot in Suisun City on Monday, removed a car seat holding the 16-day-old boy, put it on the ground and left, police said after viewing surveillance video and interviewing witnesses.
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Courtesy of Suisun City Police Department.
Two employees from a barber shop noticed the child car seat sitting unattended, and on closer inspection they found a baby in it and called police.
Police were able to get the vehicle’s license plate from surveillance video and identify Mitchell.
He was involved in a hit-and-run crash and hospitalized later Monday in nearby Fairfield, and police found him there and confirmed he was the father.
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The baby was airlifted to a children’s hospital and was in critical but stable condition.
Police said they have found and interviewed the boy’s mother, but she is not considered a suspect.
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