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.