1-year-old boy killed by shots fired into Milwaukee home

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Monday, December 29, 2014
1-year-old boy killed by shots fired into Milwaukee home
A family is searching for answers after a baby was shot and killed.

MILWAUKEE -- A family is searching for answers after a baby boy was shot and killed. Relatives say 1-year-old Bill Thao was playing with toys at a Milwaukee home when a hail of gunfire pierced the windows and walls around dinner time on Saturday.

Police believe the shooter may have accidentally targeted the wrong home. They also say the bullet that killed the baby had a message on it that said, "to whom it may concern."

Thao died after being taken to a children's hospital.

The shooting has shaken the entire city.

"Clearly, anybody who would do what happened here yesterday has no moral compass; dozens, dozens of bullets into a home filled with people who had nothing to do with whatever they were mad about," Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said.

Family members say the 1-year-old had just started walking. They also say some of the adults who were home at the time are Vietnam veterans who jumped into action by covering as many of the children as possible.

"This little boy obviously had somebody to hug and love and a family that he was coming to visit, and instead of coming to his family to visit, this is what he got," neighbor Amy Ludin said.

Detectives were still searching for suspects.