--- title: Compton, Los Angeles: Baby Girl Shot to Death in Her Crib description: Autumn Johnson had recently celebrated her first birthday canonical: https://time.com/4215264/compton-los-angeles-baby-girl-shot/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-10T13:18:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:56:26.998Z article:section: U.S. og:title: 'They Shot My Baby': 1-Year-Old Girl Killed in Her Crib in Compton og:description: Autumn Johnson had recently celebrated her first birthday og:url: https://time.com/4215264/compton-los-angeles-baby-girl-shot/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'They Shot My Baby': 1-Year-Old Girl Killed in Her Crib in Compton twitter:description: Autumn Johnson had recently celebrated her first birthday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Baby Girl Shot to Death in Her Crib in Compton by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Feb 10, 2016 1:18 PM CUT by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Feb 10, 2016 1:18 PM CUT A 1-year-old girl was [shot dead](http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-baby-killed-20160210-story.html "undefined") while lying in her crib in Compton, Calif. by a person firing from outside the family’s home. The gunman exited a car, fired at the converted garage where Autumn Johnson and her family lived, and drove away, according to the L.A. _Times_. Autumn’s mother was heard shouting, “They shot my baby,” and her father was seen coming out of the garage and saying, “Someone take my baby to the hospital.” Autumn had been struck in the head, and was pronounced dead at the hospital, the week after celebrating her first birthday. \[[_L.A. Times_](http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-baby-killed-20160210-story.html "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4215264/compton-los-angeles-baby-girl-shot/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4215264/compton-los-angeles-baby-girl-shot/"},"headline":"Baby Girl Shot to Death in Her Crib in Compton","datePublished":"2016-02-10T13:18:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:56:26.998Z","description":"Autumn Johnson had recently celebrated her first birthday","url":"https://time.com/4215264/compton-los-angeles-baby-girl-shot/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4215264/compton-los-angeles-baby-girl-shot/","name":"Baby Girl Shot to Death in Her Crib in Compton"}}]}] ```