Welcome to Arrest Stories. A twenty-three-year-old man has surrendered to authorities after allegedly shooting an eleven-year-old girl in the head in what police are calling a case of mistaken identity in Antioch. Here's what may have happened.
On January fifth, two thousand twenty-six, at approximately twelve forty p.m., a shooting occurred in the parking lot of Delta View Apartments at three thousand nine hundred fifteen Delta Fair Boulevard. An eleven-year-old girl was riding in the passenger seat of her family's car with her father as they were exiting the apartment complex parking lot, heading to the grocery store.
According to Police Lieutenant Bill Whitaker with the Antioch Police Department, the bullet that struck the girl went through the back windshield, through the headrest and struck the girl in the back of the head. After shots rang out, the father drove the car with his injured daughter to a nearby shopping center parking lot. Multiple callers led responding officers to the victim's car, where they provided medical aid.
The girl was transported to Children's Hospital Oakland, where she was initially listed in stable condition but later reported to be in critical condition at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland. Police said in a news release that the family did not appear to be the intended target.
After reviewing video evidence, investigators determined there was nobody else in the area and that the suspect shot at the moving vehicle believing it was possibly somebody else. Police identified Ryan Hardy as the suspect and released his photo to the public.
After multiple conversations over seven days, Hardy's family was contacted by detectives who pled for him to self-surrender. Hardy subsequently turned himself in to the San Francisco Sheriff's Office. An investigator stated, "After our detectives had spoken with his family and pled for him to self-surrender, he came in last night to the sheriff's office in San Francisco and self-surrendered."
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