BY ALIYA SCHNEIDER
Crime Stoppers recently
raised a $3,500 reward to
$10,000 for help identifying a
man who allegedly fi red the
shot that hit an infant in the
Bedford Park section of the
Bronx.
On Wednesday, Jan. 19, a
baby girl named Catherine
was caught in the crossfi re
of an alleged gun fi ght between
two men, just a couple
of days before her fi rst birthday,
according to police. A
man was allegedly chasing
another man before fi ring
two shots, of which one hit
the baby in the face.
Law enforcement sources
said the baby girl was in the
backseat of her 32-year-old
mother’s parked car on 198th
Street and Valentine Avenue,
within the 52nd Precinct, at
6:48 p.m. A bullet penetrated
the back window, hitting the
infant’s left cheek, authorities
said.
The father was stopping
in a nearby drugstore, and
came outside to his wife
screaming, clutching the
baby, whose pink coat was
stained with blood, Mayor
Eric Adams said at a press
conference that night. Adams
posted a photo on Twitter
that shows the bloodstained
coat left on the scene.
“It doesn’t matter to me if
it’s a police offi cer shot or if
it’s a baby shot,” Adams said.
“I’m going to stay in these
streets until this city is safe.
I’m not going to surrender
this city to violence.”
The baby was transported
to St. Barnabas Hospital before
being transferred to
Weill Cornell Medical Center
in critical but stable condition,
according to police.
A police spokesman told the
Bronx Times on Jan. 27 her
condition remains the same.
“This is not the city our
children should grow up in,”
Adams said. “And we need
help. We need help from Albany,
we need help from our
district attorneys, and we
need help to make sure we
don’t continue to put young
people in the pathway of violence.”
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President Joe Biden
planned to meet with Adams
this week to discuss gun violence
in New York City.
Elected offi cials and local
activists gathered for a vigil
at the scene of the incident
on Friday, Jan. 21, two days
after the shooting, on the
baby girl’s birthday.
“We are declaring war on
those who choose to engage
in violence in this borough,”
Bronx Borough President
Vanessa Gibson said at the
vigil.
A GoFundMe has raised
more than $30,000 to help
pay for baby Catherine’s
medical bills.
Police said the suspect
has a medium build and
was last seen wearing a face
mask, dark-colored hooded
sweatshirt with a white
Nike logo on the front, gray
sweatpants and black and
white sneakers. He allegedly
fl ed the scene driving a grey
4-door sedan, pictured in
surveillance video.
An NYPD spokesman
said on Wednesday afternoon
A $3,500 reward has been raised to $10,000 for identifying the man
whose gunfi re allegedly struck an infant in Bedford Park on Jan. 19.
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there were no updates
on the active investigation.
Anyone with information
in regard to this incident
is asked to call the NYPD’s
Crime Stoppers Hotline at
1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for
Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA
(74782). The public can also
submit their tips by logging
onto the CrimeStoppers
website at https://crimestoppers.
nypdonline.org/ or on
Twitter @NYPDTips. All
calls are strictly confi dential.
Police increase reward for baby
shot by Bedford Park gunman
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