Police in Roseville are still investigating the drive-by shooting of a 10-month-old baby today.
Investigators interviewed and released a 27-year-old former boyfriend of the baby?s mother today and the investigation continues, Deputy Chief James P. Berlin said in a release today without elaborating. The man is not the father of the 10-month-old, but he and the child?s mother are involved in a contentious paternity suit over another child, their 2 ?-year-old daughter, Berlin said.
The man has not been charged in the shooting.
Berlin said the man turned himself in ?claiming the intense media scrutiny has made him persona non grata at his usual hangouts and he wishes to clear his name.? The meeting took place for ?several hours? before he was released by police, Berlin added.
The baby and the baby's mother were sleeping on the living room couch of their Roseville home and the former couple?s daughter was asleep in her bed in another room at 11 p.m. Saturday when multiple rounds from a high-caliber handgun blasted through the front picture window.
The baby was rushed to an area hospital, where he was in critical condition but expected to survive, according to police. No one else was injured.
Berlin said today the baby suffered a ?glancing? wound to the forehead.
?He was really very, very lucky,? Berlin said. ?He was hit in the forehead, and it burrowed under the skin and exited the side, but did not penetrate the skull.?
Medical personnel were concerned with swelling near the baby?s eye, Berlin said.
