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A 20-year-old woman was fatally shot in the head while pushing a baby stroller in Manhattan on June 29, the New York Police Department said.

According to police, the woman was pushing a stroller on East 95th Street when she was approached and shot in the head at close range by a man who fled the scene on foot at around 8:25 pm.

Police said they believed the baby, who was unharmed, was three months old.

The woman was taken to Metropolitan Hospital Center where she was pronounced dead at 9:20 pm, police said.

The suspect was described as a man wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and black pants. No arrests had been made as of late Wednesday.

“When a mother is pushing a baby carriage down the block […] and is shot in point-blank range, it shows just how this national problem is impacting families,” said New York Mayor Eric Adams at a press conference near the scene.

“We’re going to find this person that’s guilty of this horrific crime. We’re going to find him and bring him to justice,” he said.

Adams said “the oversaturation of guns and dangerous people who repeatedly leave our criminal justice system to continue actions like this” were making things difficult for law enforcement in New York and “across the country”. Credit: NYPD via Storyful