A seven-month-old baby was shot and left to fend for himself while bleeding after a gunwoman opened fire on his parents and they fled.
The boy was being pushed in a pram by his parents on Meridian Street in Holmesburg, Philadelphia, at 5.51pm on Thursday.
CCTV footage showed a woman suddenly approach them, fire at the couple, then walk away after one of the bullets hit the baby in the leg.
The boy’s father immediately sprinted away as the shooter fired twice in his direction, while the mother stayed with the baby in the pram.
The gunwoman walked past the mother and child, then casually turned back and fired past the mother from point-blank range.
The mother let out a bloodcurdling scream, wailing ‘my baby’, to which the shooter callously responded ‘F**k your baby, b***h’ and walked away.
Police said when they arrived at the scene neither of the parents were there and the baby was rushed to hospital by a neighbor.
Neither of the parents were injured, and are believed to have left because they had warrants out for their arrests and were not found until an hour later.
The father was later detained by police and both parents are being questioned. They do not live in Holmesburg and it was unclear why they were there.
Police are hunting the gunwoman, who was caught on camera but is not yet identified. Investigators don’t yet know the motive for the shooting.
