A SUSPECT has been arrested in the case of a young mother who was shot dead while pushing her baby in a stroller.
The arrest comes after Azsia Johnson, 20, was shot in the head around 8.30pm on Wednesday while pushing her three-month-old daughter in a stroller in New York City.
The 22-year-old father of her three-month-old baby was a person of interest, による CBS.
The Brooklyn arrest was announced by local station PIX11 News.
The New York Police Department confirmed to 人 that Johnson was pushing the stroller on the Upper East Side of Manhattan when someone approached her and shot her in the head in what is believed to be a targeted attack.
Police have said that the hooded man, wearing all black, shot her from behind, at point-blank range.
She was found unconscious at the scene and taken to Metropolitan Hospital where she was pronounced dead, による multiple sources. Her baby remained unharmed.