28 -year-old Dominique Billips was arrested for allegedly shooting 7-month-old boy in Philadelphia.
After video from the store surfaced online officers said the public helped them capture the suspect within 24 hours.
The incident captured on nearby surveillance footage showed a woman aim a gun at a mother and her infant child in a stroller along the sidewalk. After a brief exchange of words, the woman fires at the mother and misses and then shoots into the stroller, hitting the toddler in the leg.
It took place on Meridian Street just off Frankford Avenue in Holmesburg during the early evening.
A neighbor took the child to the hospital. Officials say the parents were afraid of being arrested for their own outstanding arrest warrants. The boy was first taken to Nazareth Hospital before police transported him to Jefferson-Torresdale, where he was placed in stable condition.
Police found the parents and interviewed them to help the investigation.
According to investigators, the argument with Billips stemmed from a $100 drug debt.
“It’s sad,” said Rosenbaum. “You’ve seen that video, she literally points the gun at the mother of the baby who’s also a juvenile and fires. Luckily she missed… that’s probably when the baby got hit.”
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