A man shot into the Northwood home of his estranged girlfriend Tuesday night, hitting and critically wounding a 7-year-old boy visiting there, and then apparently turned the gun on himself about two blocks away, police said.

The victim, Zayden Morales, of Utah Street in East Toledo, was taken to Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the face, police said.

The gunman, Gregory Willis, 26, was found dead about 45 minutes later, lying on West Plumer Street near Stroehlein Avenue in East Toledo. Northwood police said a handgun was found in the vicinity of the body.

■ Phone call between police agencies on shooting

Sgt. Doug Hubaker said the Morales youth was shot in the face about 10:30 p.m. while sitting at a dining room table with other people in the home at 314 W. Andrus Road. He said the victim did not live in the home.

Sergeant Hubaker said the gunfire came from outside the home through a window. He said no one else in the residence was struck.

A man who was outside walking his dog found Mr. Willis lying on the road and walked to emergency medical staff at the shooting on Andrus to report he found a body.

According to police, Mr. Willis lived in the house on Andrus with his girlfriend, Kassaundra Dunbar, 26, and their 5-month-old son.

Northwood police filed a domestic violence charge in Perrysburg Municipal Court against Mr. Willis after Ms. Dunbar reported he had assaulted her in the home about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.

According to a police report, she fled the residence with the child and her 8-year-old daughter after he grabbed her by the throat and began choking her on the couch in the living room.

Northwood police Chief Tom Carroll said Mr. Willis was the focus of a search by police who sought to arrest him for domestic violence, a first-degree misdemeanor.

“A warrant had been issued for his arrest,” he said. “He apparently got wind of it.”

A St. Vincent spokesman said the Morales boy was in critical condition Wednesday in the intensive care unit of the hospital.

Dr. Maneesha Pandey, a Lucas County deputy coroner, said Mr. Willis died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head and the office would determine his cause of death to be suicide, pending the results of toxicology tests.

Police did not know why the Morales boy was in the home in Northwood but are looking into whether he is an acquaintance of Ms. Dunbar’s daughter.

Evidence obtained by Northwood police, including a gun found near Mr. Willis, has been submitted to the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation for analysis.

First Published November 26, 2015, 5:00 a.m.