<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1656572062547,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"00000162-07c3-d172-a563-4febcc790000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1656572062547,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"00000162-07c3-d172-a563-4febcc790000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ "div": "Brid_56571904", "obj": {"id":"27789","width":"16","height":"9","video":"1042366"} }); ","_id":"00000181-b363-d578-a1dd-bbffa24f0000","_type":"2f5a8339-a89a-3738-9cd2-3ddf0c8da574"}”>Video EmbedA hooded gunman shot and killed a 20-year-old mother as she pushed her infant child in a stroller in New York City on Wednesday.
The shooting occurred on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, near East 95th Street and Lexington Avenue, at around 8:30 p.m., according to police. The attacker shot the woman in the head at “very close range,” police said. The victim’s 3-month-old baby was unharmed. Police do not have a suspect in custody.
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“We’re going to find this person that’s guilty of this horrific crime,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said in a press conference. “We’re going to find him and bring him to justice. We need the justice system to make sure that innocent person receives that justice.”
New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell described the shooter as a male wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and black sweat pants. She said he fled the scene on foot immediately after the shooting.
Adams blamed the killing on the “overproliferation of guns” in the city and criminals who have “no fear of using these guns on innocent New Yorkers.”
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The mayor said the “oversaturation of guns and dangerous people that repeatedly leave our criminal justice system” is difficult problem to fight, both in New York and on a national level. He called on “Washington, the state, and our criminal justice system” to help reign in “this national problem.”
In the New York Police Department’s latest statistical release on crime, it found that the number of overall shooting incidents in the city declined in May 2022 compared to last year. Gun arrests in the city so far in 2022 were up 4.4% compared to 2021, according to the NYPD. However, overall crime in the city was up nearly 28% compared to last year.
