Police in New Mexico have charged a 32-year-old man with murder of a four-year-old girl in a road rage shooting.
Tony Torrez was arrested a day after Lilly Garcia was gunned down in the back seat of her father’s pick-up truck on Interstate 40 in Albuquerque on Tuesday.
Officials said Lilly was killed after a Toyota saloon car pulled up beside her father’s pick-up truck and shots were fired into the vehicle.
The freeway shooting happened after her father collected Lilly and her seven-year-old brother from school.
Authorities say Lilly was killed after a maroon or dark-red Toyota saloon car pulled up beside her father's pick-up and shots were fired into the vehicle.
Police announced the arrest soon after releasing a recording of an emergency call from the scene.
In the minute-long call, a man is heard alerting an operator to a red pick-up truck on the central reservation on Albuquerque's west side and saying a man appears to be holding an unresponsive child.
Reward money for tips leading to an arrest in the shooting had grown to more than 25,000 dollars (£16,200).
Police said they struggled with the initial investigation and search for the assailant because of a storm that swept over the Albuquerque area soon after the shooting, witnesses' varying descriptions of the suspect and a crime scene that could span two miles.
