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Lilly Garcia, four, was riding in the car with her parents on Interstate 40 in Albuquerque when she was shot on Tuesday afternoon
Her father told officers the suspect pulled up beside him and 'started firing rounds into the car'
Police are looking for a maroon or dark red Toyota sedan and describe the shooter as a white or Hispanic male with short, dark hair and a goatee
Police said no one else was injured and the family didn't know shooter

By Anneta Konstantinides and Kelly Mclaughlin For Dailymail.com

Published: 22:22 EST, 20 October 2015 | Updated: 14:29 EST, 21 October 2015

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The family of a four-year-old girl who was shot in the head and killed during a road rage attack on a New Mexico Highway are begging for witnesses to come forward.

Lilly Garcia was shot by an unidentified gunman as she rode in a car with her mother and father on Interstate 40 on Tuesday afternoon. No one else was injured.

Police are looking for a maroon or dark red Toyota sedan and describe the shooter as a white or Hispanic male with short, dark hair and a goatee.

Crime Stoppers have offered a $1,000 reward for information and can be reached at (505)843-7867.

Four-year-old Lilly Garcia was shot in the head and killed during what appeared to be a road rage attack on New Mexico's Interstate 40 on Tuesday

Police respond after a red vehicle (center) is shot at and the four-year-old girl inside it killed on I-40 near Unser in New Mexico on Tuesday afternoon

Lilly’s mother, Veronica, told KOB that her seven-year-old son was also in the truck at the time of the shooting and that he will be interviewed by police on Wednesday.

A GoFundMe account has been set up to pay for Lilly’s funeral expenses, and Veronica used the description on the page to reach out to witnesses.

She wrote: ‘Most of you know my precious Lilly was taken from us today. I ask all of you is to please share the news stories and if anyone has information on what happen today, please contact APD.

‘I need to catch the individual who took my baby from me, her Dad and her brother. I beg you, please please please share. Thank you to everyone who has reached out to me and Alan Garcia. Thank you for all your prayers.’

The police kicked off a massive manhunt for the suspect and are also calling for the public to come forward with information.

'We are in desperate need of info to help us resolve the conflicting information we're getting right now,' Police Chief Gorden Eden told the Albuquerque Journal. 'We're begging for the community's help.'

The truck believed to be involved in the shooting, with what seems to be a bullet hole in the rear window

The girl had been riding in the car with her mother and father on Interstate 40 when she was hit on Tuesday afternoon. Pictured police attend to a man next to the car that is believed to belong to the family

He described the girl's death as 'a terrible, tragic loss'.

Her father told officers the shooting had stemmed from a road rage incident and that his and the suspect's vehicles were both moving when the suspect pulled up beside him and 'started firing rounds into the car'.

Police said they do not believe the family knew the shooter.

'This is a complete disrespect of human life. This is something that should not be happening in Albuquerque, New Mexico,' Eden told KOAT.

The father did not have any weapons on him that the police knew of, Albuquerque Police Department Officer Simon Drobik told KRQE News 13.

Drobik said the family pulled to the side of the road until help arrived. An off-duty Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office deputy stopped at the scene soon afterwards, at 3pm.

The girl's father told officers the shooting had stemmed from road rage and that the vehicles were both moving when the suspect pulled up beside him and 'started firing rounds into the car'

The family received help after an off-duty Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office deputy pulled up their car at 3pm. The officer initially believed the child had fallen out of the car before realizing she had been shot

The officer initially believed the child had fallen out of the car before he realized she had been shot, according to KOAT.

An ambulance rushed her to a hospital, where she later died, said Eden.

Police were pulling over suspicious vehicles but have not made any arrests, according to the Albuquerque Journal.

Eden has asked for anyone who saw two cars cutting each other off near the Coors exit on the westbound I-40 highway to contact Albuquerque police.

Officers said the highway's westbound lanes from 98th Street to Coors Boulevard were closed for hours after the incident to search for possible bullet casings.

Eden called the crime 'unexplainable' and '100 per cent preventable'.

'We need to rise up as a community and say enough is enough,' he added.