Body of missing three-week-old Eliza Delacruz found in San Diego bin

A THREE-WEEK-OLD baby, who went missing after her parents were both shot in their home, has been found dead.

The body of Eliza Delacruz was found in a garbage bag inside a skip in Imperial Beach, San Diego early on Sunday afteoon. Local sheriff’s deputies said a homeless man found the baby’s body while digging through the waste behind a pizza restaurant at a shopping mall, ABC-7 reports.

Grim discovery ... the body of a missing three-week-old girl was found by a homeless man, digging through discarded waste behind a San Diego shopping mall. Picture: NBC-4 Source: Supplied

She was reported missing from her Long Beach home, 190 kilometres away, after a shooting that wounded her mother, father and uncle around 6pm on Saturday evening .

All the shooting victims are expected to survive their injuries. The mother and uncle remain hospitalised in critical condition but the father has been released.

Police believe an adult male is responsible for the abduction but his relationship to the victims and motives are not known. “This is a horrific crime,” Lieutenant Lloyd Cox of the Long Beach police department told NBC. “The family is devastated.”

“Somebody comes into this house, shoots three adults, flees with an infant who then later is found dead in San Diego,” Lieutenant Cox said.