AKRON, Ohio -- Officials have identified a 4-year-old girl who was shot inside of a car and killed Friday night in Akron.

Janaya Swain died in the shooting, which happened about 10:30 p.m. on Mercer Avenue near Lawton Street in Akron, police and the Summit County Medical Examiner's Office said.

Detectives are searching for Darnell Bitting, 31, who is accused of killing Janaya. Warrants have been issued and Bitting is charged with murder and using weapons under disability, court records show.

Officers responded to the scene on a report of a shooting and found a 2008 Dodge Avenger with four girls, ages 3, 4, 6 and 7, inside of the car with their grandmother, police said.

The children's mother told police she drove up to a Mercer Avenue home, got out of the car and walked up to the home to get belongings.

After breaking several windows when no one answered the door, a man, later identified as Bitting, fired a shot, police said. The shot struck the car and hit Janaya, police said.

She was taken to Akron Children's Hospital where she was pronounced dead.

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