Baby slain in upstate drive-by

An 11-month baby was killed and two other little girls were wounded in an upstate drive-by shooting, police said.

Dior Harris (inset) was just weeks away from her first birthday when she was shot multiple times shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday while in the backseat of a car in Syracuse, officials said.

“She was just a baby,” her mother, Desiree Seymore, told CNY Central. “She was so strong. She didn’t even cry when it happened, but we lost her.”

Seymore and her cousin Shakema Buckmon were out with Dion and Buckmon’s daughters, ages 8 and 3, when someone opened fire from a car headed in the opposite direction, Syracuse.com reported.

“They just started, ‘Pow! Pow! Pow!’ Just started shooting at my car, and then just drove away,” Buckmon told CNY Central. While the women were unharmed, their daughters were all struck by the gunfire, police said.

Dior was rushed to Upstate University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

“I tried to save her. I tried to get to the hospital as fast as I could. I tried, I tried but she had already passed before we could make it down the street,” Buckmon said. Buckmon’s children are expected to survive, police said. No motive has been released for the shooting, but Chavez R. Ocasio, 23, was arrested Monday night in connection with Dior’s death, a law-enforcement source said. It’s unclear what his alleged role was in the shooting.

Ocasio was booked on charges of murder, criminal possession of a firearm, tampering with physical evidence and violation of parole, officials said.