A 7-month-old girl was shot dead in her stroller by a stray bullet while walking with her parents in Brooklyn, with cops now looking for a pair of moped-riding thugs, according to law enforcement sources.
The family was strolling near Humboldt and Moore streets early in the afternoon when the shots rang out, and the two suspected gunmen sped off, the sources said.
The tot’s mom heard the shots and rushed her daughter into a nearby bodega — then looked down at the stroller and saw the blood, according to the sources.
The youngster was rushed by ambulance to Woodhull Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 1:46 p.m.
“I was in the supermarket and coming out with my sandwich. I heard a commotion and a shot. Once you hear shots in the air, you duck. I saw a girl on the floor with her baby,” said Vincent Valcissel, 63.
“It happened so fast like a movie.”
A witness who identified herself as Ms. Jones described the heart-rending scene as the tragic tot was brought into the hospital.
“I heard someone say, ‘My baby, my baby.’ She was just like ‘Save my baby, save my baby,” Jones said. “She was trying to tell her baby to wake up, telling the baby to wake up.”
“The police started coming in. There was so much chaos. I heard the beep. Once I heard the beep, I knew it was flatlining and the baby was gone,” the witness added.
“They came and told the mother and she went crazy. She lost it. Then the last thing I heard her say was, ‘No, no, no!’ She was just screaming out, ‘No. I can’t believe this.”
Police have now launched a manhunt for the two suspects.
According to sources, the girl was not the intended target, but it is not immediately clear if the killers were aiming for her parents or other bystanders at the scene.
Chilling surveillance photos show the shooter firing from the back of the moped while the driver speeds away.
The driver of the moped was described as a man with long hair wearing a light-colored hooded sweatshirt, while the shooter was wearing a dark colored hoodie, the sources said.
“It’s disgusting. It’s disgusting. This is what these people get voting blue. If the National Guard was out here, this wouldn’t have happened,” Valcissel said.
Additional reporting by Steven Vago
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