Police recover 4-month-old daughter, loaded handgun after dad gives chase (Indianapolis, Indiana)

No doubt UNNAMED DAD just wanted some quality time with his 4-month-old daughter! They were no doubt going to go bowling or play video games! That's why he took off with her! And don't Americans have rights to loaded handguns?

Oh wait. You say Daddy did the the adolescent police chase thing, lost control of the car, then took off on foot, abandoning the baby in the car? Oh, and Daddy has a previous felony battery conviction? Um, never mind. Give us a while, though, and we'll think up more excuses for why he's a Poor Oppressed Daddy, beaten down by The System.

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Police recover 4-month-old, gun after chase10:20 AM, Mar. 28, 2011

An automobile chased by police early Sunday involved a loaded handgun and a 4-month-old girl who had been taken from her mother, police said.

Indianapolis metropolitan police recovered the gun and the child, who was unhurt. The 24-year-old man driving the car got out and ran away and had not been caught as of Sunday night.

The incident began with an argument on the city's Far Northside, and the pursuit ended several miles away on the Near Northside, according to incident reports from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

Officers were first called to an apartment complex in the 7100 block of Warrior Trail at 3:03 a.m. Sunday. A police report said a woman told officers that she had been riding in a 2002 Buick Century driven by the father of their girl, with the girl riding in a child seat in the back seat.

Police said the man and the woman argued, and that when the man dropped off the woman on Warrior Trail, he drove away with the child still in the back seat.

A second police report said the pursuit began at 3:43 a.m. Sunday at 38th Street and Keystone Avenue, when an officer spotted a Buick speeding north on Keystone. The Buick's driver hit the brakes and made a quick left-hand turn onto Millersville Road with the officer in pursuit, according to the second incident report.

The pursuit continued south through a residential area, where officers said the Buick's driver lost control of the car several times. After racing through several streets, the Buick finally slid to a stop on a curb at 29th Street and Guilford Avenue, where the driver got out and ran away.

The second police report said officers found a loaded .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun inside the Buick and the girl still strapped in the infant seat. The girl, who was not injured, was taken to Wishard Memorial Hospital to be checked out.

Police reports said the man who led police on the chase did not have the right to carry a handgun because he had a previous felony battery conviction, and that he did not have custody of the child and faced a possible charge of child endangerment.