A pregnant woman unloading gifts from her own baby shower was fatally shot outside a Philadelphia home Saturday night in what police said they suspect was a 'cowardly' targeted shooting.
On Sunday, investigators were working to identify a suspect or suspects as well as uncover a motive for the killing."The person who did this couldn't be more cowardly," Deputy Police Commissioner Christine Coulter told ABC stationPhiladelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said the city is offering a $50,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest, he announced Sunday morning.
Coulter said the shooting unfolded around 8:30 p.m. in northeast Philadelphia when the woman returned home from her baby shower and was unloading gifts from her Kia Soul parked outside her home near the intersection of Palmetto and Benner streets in the Lawncrest neighborhood. A police officer on patrol two blocks away heard gunfire and discovered the pregnant woman outside her home suffering from gunshot wounds to her head and stomach, authorities said."When I look at this situation, it looks like someone was targeting her, looking for her," Coulter told WPVI.
At the start of the weekend, Philadelphia police had investigated 491 homicides in 2021, a 13% increase from the same time span in 2020, according to a grim tally from the city's
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