SPRING, Texas (KXAN) – Update at 9 p.m.: Montgomery County District Attorney Brett Ligon says authorities found the 3-day-old infant safe Tuesday night. He says the father is on his way to be reunited with his son.
 
Investigators say a mother has been fatally shot and her newborn son abducted outside a suburban Houston pediatric center.

Sheriff’s officials say 28-year-old Kayla Marie Golden was walking to her vehicle after a checkup Tuesday with her 3-day-old son and had a verbal altercation with a woman in a parked Lexus.

Lt. Dan Norris says the woman repeatedly shot Golden, took her infant and sped away. He says the dying mother tried to reach into the Lexus, but it hit her.

Witnesses reported hearing up to seven gunshots. Norris says a man also was in the Lexus, which is blood-stained on the driver’s side.

The infant, named Keegan, was wearing a green-and-white outfit displaying the word “handsome.”

The shooting happened in Spring, near Houston. A statewide emergency alert was issued.

Suspect took the child’s infant carrier but did not take the base of the carrier. Suspect was wearing a grey sweatshirt and blue jeans and driving a light blue or sea green newer model Lexis, unknown license plate.

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