A 20-year-old lady died after being shot within the head whereas pushing her 3-month-old in a stroller in Manhattan's Higher East Facet Wednesday evening. The toddler wasn't injured.
New York Metropolis Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell mentioned in a information convention that the sufferer was pushing the stroller when a person approached from behind and "fired a single shot into her head from a really shut vary," then fled.
The sufferer was rushed to a hospital and pronounced useless about an hour later, Sewell mentioned. Her identify wasn't instantly launched.
The suspect stays at massive. There was no phrase on a doable motive.
New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams additionally spoke on the information convention and pointed to the "downside of the over-proliferation of weapons on our streets."
"When a lady is pushing a child carriage down the block, and is shot at point-blank vary, it reveals simply how this nationwide downside is impacting households," Adams mentioned. "It would not matter in case you are on the Higher East Facet, or East New York, Brooklyn. The oversaturation of weapons endangers individuals."
CBS New York reviews that police had been checking surveillance cameras within the space to attempt to decide the place the girl was coming from and what could have prompted that capturing.
A supply informed the station she was carrying an ID from the New York Metropolis borough of Staten Island.