Mayor Calls Father a Coward After 2-Year-Old Caught in the Crossfire: Report

BOSTON, MA — After a toddler was shot Saturday in Roxbury, Mayor Marty Walsh is asking her father to "step up" and cooperate with police.

"That's a coward right there," he said in an interview with NECN and other outlets. "Her father, I think, has information on this, and he should step up and be a man here, and give the information to police, so they can find out who shot his two-year-old daughter."

Boston Police believe the girl's father was the intended target of the bullet that struck the toddler Saturday in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood. She is reportedly on the path to recovery.

Community cooperation is an ongoing challenge for police, who in some cases have been left imploring the public to step forward with information they believe could solve a case.

"We need the public to be outraged," Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said earlier this year, after a high school student was shot yards from his school. "If the public isn't stepping up on something like this, something is wrong,"

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