FL Couple Faces Charges After Gun Found Under Baby Stroller

SARASOTA, FL — A Florida couple is facing charges after police said they found a loaded handgun under a stroller where the couple had placed their newborn baby.

"A couple has been arrested in Sarasota after an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon," Genevieve Judge of the Sarasota Police Department said Friday in announcing the charges against the couple. "The weapon, a fully loaded 9mm handgun, was found by Sarasota police officers under the couple’s stroller where their infant child was sitting."

Judge told Patch the city has seen an overall drop in violent crime amid the coronavirus lockdown.

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Nineteen year-old Mikayla Gibbs of Sarasota was charged with aggravated assault with a weapon without intent to kill. Twenty-four-year-old Kori Quick was charged with child neglect without great bodily harm and aggravated assault with a weapon without intent to kill.

Judge said the gun was found Wednesday as police were investigating a report of an assault in the 2200 block of Ringling Boulevard.

"The victim, who was sleeping in a chair in the alleyway, told officers he was threatened by two people who had weapons," Judge said. "The victim said he saw the two people the day before when he was assaulted by Gibbs."

Judge said Quick and Gibbs were picked up a short time later with their baby, who was born on March 4. They were walking to their home in the 2000 block of Adams Lane at the time.

She said the gun was loaded with one round in the chamber.

"Quick and Gibbs were arrested and transported to the Sarasota County Jail without incident," Judge said. "Their infant child was taken to Sarasota Memorial Hospital to be treated and then the Department of Children and Families took responsibility for the child."