The father of a 17-month-old girl shot and killed the child's mother in front of a California police station, authorities said.
According to KABC-TV, the incident occurred about 6 p.m. Sunday outside the Hawthorne Police Department, where the 30-year-old man and 27-year-old woman were meeting to exchange custody of the toddler. Authorities said the man brought the girl into the police station, then went back outside, retrieved a gun from his truck and shot the woman, KCBS-TV reported.