Lizelda Monares, facing camera, mother of 6-year-old slaying victim Analissa Monares-Leon, shot and killed while sleeping on a couch at her Southwest Side home, is comforted by Angelica Lozano during a fundraising car wash Wednesday, a day after the killing. At right is family friend Angelina Howard.

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A shooting that left a 6-year-old girl dead Tuesday morning as she slept at her Southwest Side home was not a random act of violence, officials said Wednesday.

The home where Analissa Monares-Leon lived was targeted, although homicide detectives would not say why, said Deputy Dawn Hanke, a Pima County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman.

Authorities are also looking to speak with two males who may have been seen in the area around the time the shooting occurred in the 2200 block of West Dakota Street, Hanke said. The home is near South Mission and West Irvington roads.

During a search of the home, detectives found three bullets in two rooms and two bags of "green leafy substance" in a closet, according to a search warrant document filed by sheriff's investigators in Pima County Superior Court on Wednesday.

Bullets were found on the living-room floor, under a living-room carpet and behind a stove in the kitchen, according to the document. An additional 37 rounds of .38 special and .357-caliber Magnum ammunition were found in a bag in a closet.

Investigators also retrieved clothing and linens from inside the house and a bloody towel from near the driveway.

The girl was hit by gunfire as she slept on a couch before 5 a.m. Tuesday. She was pronounced dead at University Medical Center.

Jonathan D. Rodriguez, 21, the boyfriend of Analissa's mother, was at the home at the time of the shooting and was arrested Tuesday on an outstanding felony warrant in connection with a probation violation for weapons misconduct, said Sgt. James Ogden, a Pima County Sheriff's Department spokesman. But he said Rodriguez's arrest was not connected to Analissa's death.

Investigators were also looking for two vehicles a neighbor said were involved in a shooting outside the home a few hours before the killing. That shooting was not reported until deputies showed up in response to the shooting that killed Analissa, a first-grader at White Elementary School.

Ogden said that about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, a neighbor saw a newer-model Chevrolet Tahoe and an Oldsmobile sedan near the intersection of South San Joaquin Avenue and West Dakota.

A passenger got out of the Tahoe and fired a gun at the Oldsmobile, Ogden said. Both vehicles then left the area.

Investigators don't know if that is connected to the girl's death, Ogden said. There were no details on color of the vehicles or how many people were inside them.

Authorities are asking anyone with information to call 911 or 88-CRIME.