Baby missing in Kansas, mother shot dead
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Sofia Victoria Gonzalez Abarca. (Wichita Police Dept.)
The FBI joined the search Friday for a newborn girl after her father found the baby's mother shot to death in their Kansas home, police announced.
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The father came home in Wichita Thursday to find Sofia Victoria Gonzalez Abarca had disappeared and his live-in girlfriend, Laura Abarca-Nogueda, was dead, police Lt. Todd Ojile said during a news conference. The child was believed to be in danger.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Investigators do not consider the father a suspect, Sgt. Nikki Woodrow added. The baby was just 6 days old when she vanished, Fox 4 reported.
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Police did not release the parents' names. They have not issued an Amber Alert because they have not identified a suspect, Woodrow said.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Investigators said they wanted to talk to anyone with a relationship to the victim.
Police sent out an alert Thursday night saying the driver of a purple Cadillac who was a person of interest in the case was found and questioned. He was not considered to be a suspect.
The FBI in Kansas City, Missouri, has deployed a team specializing in investigating child abductions, spokeswoman Bridget Patton said. She deferred additional questions to Wichita police, saying only that federal agents were "in an assistance capacity to Wichita."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said Friday it has dispatched members of its "Team Adam" -- retired law enforcers -- to assist in the search for the baby girl.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.