A baby smiled and waved at her mother’s killers. Nearly 6 years later, a judge finds pair guilty.

A baby smiled and waved at her mother’s killers. Nearly 6 years later, a judge finds pair guilty.

On a sunny morning in May 2019, Brittany Hill held her toddler daughter on her hip as she spoke to family and friends on a residential North Austin street, at first barely noticing the car that pulled up. Her daughter, though, smiled at two men in the car, and then 1-year-old Ja-Miley Jones waved at them. Moments later, prosecutors said during a bench trial this week, the two men aimed their guns, then fired. Hill, 24, ran away, using her 123-po…

The "Shandong home-kidnapping case" was heard in the Tai'an Intermediate Court on April 2. The family of the kidnapped baby, Jiang Jiaru, reconstructed the scene of the crime to the media.