New Yorkers Despair at Unceasing Crime on Morning after 20-Year-Old Woman Pushing a Stroller was Shot Dead in Manhattan

By Yehudit Garmaise

As a madwoman frightfully screamed near commuters who were waiting at the Atlantic-Barclays station this morning, women sadly shook their heads.

“All I can think about is that young mother who was pushing her baby in a stroller on the Upper East Side last night when she was shot in the head,” one woman said to the other commuters standing near her.

The Brooklyn-bound commuter was speaking about a 20-year-old woman who was shot dead at point-blank range by a suspect who approached her from behind at Lexington Avenue and East 95th Street around 8:25 pm Wednesday night, police said.

The baby, who is now an orphan, was unharmed physically, said police. 

The gunman who fled from the scene and is still at large was wearing a black hoodie and sweatpants.

“When a mother’s pushing a baby carriage down the block and is shot at point-blank range: this shows just how this national problem is impacting families and doesn’t matter if you are on the Upper East Side or East New York, Brooklyn,” Mayor Eric Adams said at a press conference from the scene.

The mayor has attempted to reverse the city’s highest crime uptick in 40 years by better deploying manpower, improving communication and organization among city agencies, cracking down on rule-breaking like turnstile-jumpers, and removing homeless people from trains and encampments, however, he and NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell have said their efforts to restore law and order will take time.

Every day, Mayor Adams says that he is 100% clear on how terrified New Yorkers feel when they hear loud noises that could possibly be gunshots on the subway or on the streets.

After the mayor rode the subways overnight for more than three hours last week, he told the New York Post he was “shocked” to learn just “how bad this place is” and that he also did not feel safe on the subway. 

Although some might feel alarmed that even the city’s mayor agrees to the disastrous situation, Boro Parkers were comforted by Adams’ honesty.

“At least he sees what is going on, and he is actually trying to fix it,” a woman said on 13th Avenue.