A young mother who was walking her 3-month-old baby in a stroller was fatally shot Wednesday night on a street on the Upper East Side, police sources said.
The woman 20 years old was shot in the head by a suspect who approached him from behind at Lexington Avenue and East 95th Street around 8: 20 pm, as first reported by The New York Post.
The woman was rushed to the Metropolitan Hospital where she was declared dead, assured media, however, the baby was unharmed.
Also It transpired that the gunman, dressed completely in black, fled on foot down 95 East Street, information that was later corroborated by the commissioner of NYPD Keechant Sewell.