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Police in Tennessee are searching for a two-day-old girl, whose mother was shot and killed on Tuesday.
Authorities have issued an Amber Alert for Kennedy Hoyle, who was last seen in Memphis on February 1. The Amber Alert was issued shortly after her mother, 27-year-old Danielle Hoyle, was found shot to death in a car.
According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the child, who is 17 inches long and weighs 6 pounds, was last seen "wearing a black and white polka dot onesie with pink pants."
The Memphis Police Department searched a section of the city nearby where Hoyle was last seen. "A male has been detained," the police said in a tweet regarding the search on Wednesday afternoon. "He is known to the victims."
According to local news station WMC-TV 5, members of Kennedy and Danielle Hoyle's family were also at the scene of the search.
The detention of the unnamed person of interest came after Danielle Hoyle was found shot to death in a car on Tuesday night. However, the newborn, who was last seen with her mother, was not in the car.
Danielle Hoyle's mother, April Campbell, told local news station WREG 3 that Danielle was preparing to take Kennedy back to the hospital for testing. Campbell told WREG that she spoke with her daughter Tuesday evening and Danielle told her she was at the hospital.
"She was like 'yeah, mom, I'm trying to get the baby out the car and get her in the hospital,'" Campbell said. She also told the station that she wanted to get the word out about her missing granddaughter to get as many people as possible to be on the lookout for Kennedy, especially given the fact that she is just two days old.
"They said they got like 50 police looking for her," Campbell said. "My thing is, everybody should be looking for her. She's a newborn."
The Amber Alert system originated in 1996. It was named after Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old girl who was kidnapped and murdered in Arlington, Texas. According to the Amber Alert website, one is issued if "there is reasonable belief by law enforcement that an abduction has occurred," and in the event that "the law enforcement agency believes that the child is in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death."
The TBI and Memphis Police Department urge anyone with potential tips to contact them at 1-800-TBI-FIND.
The City of Memphis declined to comment on the investigation. Newsweek has reached out to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for comment.
Update 2/2/22 5:15 PM ET - This story has been updated with additional information.
