A 20-year-old mother pushing her approximately 3-month-old in a baby stroller was shot dead at “very close range” in New York’s Upper East Side on Wednesday night, police say.
The shooting occurred just before 8:30 p.m. on East 95th Street and Lexington Avenue, opposite building 164 East 96th Street, NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said later that night at a press conference alongside Mayor Eric Adams and other officials.
First responders transported the woman to Metropolitan Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 9.20 p.m.
Sewell described the suspect as “an unknown” man who had approached the victim and “fired a single shot in her head from a very close range.”…