UPDATE: Baby from yesterday's interstate chase has died. From a single GSW.

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The baby shot Monday during a gunfight in Mississippi between a man on the run for killing two people in Baker and the authorities pursuing him died of a single gunshot wound, local television station WLOX reported Wednesday.

The infant, identified as La’Mello Parker, was shot once and died of its wound, Harrison County Coroner Brian Switzer told WLOX.

The coroner did not say whether that shot was made at close range. That information will be included in the autopsy report, which will be sent to investigators and the district attorney’s office, according to WLOX.

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The child brought on an interstate police chase that ended in gunfire Monday after a man fled authorities following the killing two people at a residence in Baker has died, the Biloxi Police Department said Tuesday morning.

The infant was brought to the hospital Monday afternoon with unspecified injuries after a low speed pursuit eastbound on Interstate 10 ended near mile marker 40 in Mississippi, Biloxi Police said.

The suspect, Eric Derrell Smith, a 30-year-old from Baton Rouge, tried to drive across the median but his car got stuck, Biloxi Police Chief John Miller said. Smith and police officers then got into a shootout in which Smith was killed; Miller said he didn't know whether officers killed Smith or he killed himself.

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