A seven-month-old girl was shot and killed while sitting in her pushchair in “broad daylight” in New York City‘s borough of Brooklyn, police have said.
Police believe the baby was the unintended victim of a suspected gang-related shooting.
Footage from the scene shows two men driving against the flow of traffic through the Williamsburg neighbourhood when a man sitting on the back of the motorbike takes out a gun and fires “at least two rounds”, New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told a news conference.
The bike then crashed and the suspected shooter was apprehended, but a “massive” manhunt was under way for the driver, she said.
“A life that had barely begun was taken in an instant,” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.
“Today is a devastating reminder of how much more work there is to be done to combat gun violence across this city.”
Several adults and children, two of whom were in buggies, had been on a street corner when the shooting occurred.
The seven-month-old’s parents ran for cover in a nearby corner shop, where they realised their child had been shot, the BBC’s US partner CBS reported.
Source: BBC
