June 30, 2022
Another shocking random killing in Manhattan, and Eric Adams blames the gun
By Monica Showalter
In New York, there's a lot of horror at a seemingly random killing of a 20-year-old woman pushing a baby stroller with her three-month-old infant on an Upper East Side street.
According to CBS News:
A 20-year-old woman died after being shot in the head while pushing her 3-month-old in a stroller in Manhattan's Upper East Side Wednesday night. The toddler [sic] wasn't injured.
The victim was rushed to a hospital and pronounced dead about an hour later, Sewell said. Her name wasn't immediately released.
The suspect remains at large. There was no word on a possible motive.
Now, we still don't know much about what happened. Was it a boyfriend issue? Did she know the killer? Was there a racial component? Was the woman killed for being Asian, or white, or some other "wrong" color? Was it really the Upper East Side as reported, given that it's two blocks from Spanish Harlem on the map?
Or was it the same kind of nightmare crime that is increasingly happening in New York, where a random passenger is pushed in front of a moving subway, or a random person on the subway gets stabbed, or a college student walking to class or from the park is randomly shot from behind for no apparent reason? All of these things have happened, recently, in the increasingly 'Shattered' New York City.
This callous crime, though, is making waves, because such crimes are not expected to happen on the corner of Lexington and East 95th, seven blocks away from the Guggenheim Museum. The perception is that broad-daylight murders this don't happen, at least outside some of the outer boroughs. Manhattan is supposed to be the safe place, especially the Upper East Side, where all the social climbers Tom Wolfe used to write about live. This killing is enough to make anyone feel unsafe -- if it happens there, who will be next? Based on press accounts, it seems some kind of bottom has dropped out. The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, after all, rushed to the scene, given the high impact of the crime.
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