A Henderson man is in jail after his 9-month-old daughter was fatally shot Friday afternoon. Officers with the Evansville Police Department were called to a home in Evansville around 2:40 p.m. on reports that a baby had been shot. When officers arrived to the scene hey found a 9-month-old girl had been shot in the head. The girl was inside an apartment at the time of the shooting. She was taken to a nearby hospital where she later died. The girl’s father, 20 year old Anthony Lamont Meriweather, of Henderson, was arrested and charged with neglect of a dependent causing death. Meriweather is being held at the Vanderburgh County Corrections Center on a $50,000 bond.
