Alva Review-Courier -

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Officials have arrested a Wichita man they accuse of kidnapping his girlfriend and her two young children, then shooting the woman's 2-year-old daughter as the woman fled when he threatened her with a knife.

It happened Monday morning, the Reno County Sheriff's Office said, when Kamden Campos, 21, of Wichita, lured the woman and her children into his car following an argument, then driving them to Cheney Lake, where investigators said he forced the woman at knifepoint to the edge of the lake with the intent to hurt her.

The woman bolted when Campos became briefly distracted, jumped into the car where her children remained and sped off, officials said. As she fled, Campos fired several shots at the car, investigators said, and one bullet hit the 2-year-old in the back seat. Neither the woman nor her other child — an infant — where injured, officials said.

When the woman later realized the child had been shot, she called 911, and medics arrived at her location to rush the toddler to a hospital in Wichita. The child underwent emergency surgery, and officials said she was in stable condition by Monday night.

Authorities said a brief manhunt around the lake led to Campos' arrest on suspicion of attempted murder, aggravated kidnapping and possession of stolen property. He remained behind bars Tuesday on bond set at $2.1 million.