Woman arrested in connection with savage shooting of baby in stroller



A woman has been arrested in connection with the horrific shooting of a baby in a stroller in northeast Philadelphia.

On Thursday evening, a suspect opened fire on a couple walking their 7-month-old son along the 4000 block of Meridian Street in the Holmesburg section of the city, as Blaze News previously reported. The shooting prompted the parents to run while the suspect walked away, video released by the Philadelphia Police Department showed.

'You knew they had a stroller. What makes you walk up to someone with a stroller and shoot them?'

One bullet struck the infant in the leg. Reports indicate that a neighbor took the boy to Nazareth Hospital in a private vehicle before officials transferred him to a trauma center at Jefferson Torresdale and then to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for further treatment. The boy remains in stable condition.

Police have also spoken with the parents, who apparently hid for about an hour following the shooting on account of some "outstanding warrants," according to Lieutenant Denis Rosenbaum of the Philadelphia Police Department. Those warrants are believed to be for nonviolent offenses.

The mother of the child is a juvenile, Rosenbaum confirmed.

On Friday, police arrested 28-year-old Dominique Billips in connection with the shooting after an officer from a different squad recognized her from the police video. Tips from the public also were helpful, according to a police press release shared with Blaze News. The charges against Billips include aggravated assault and violation of the Uniform Firearms Act.

For now, cops believe a $100 narcotics debt may have been the motive for the shooting.

"Luckily, [the suspect] missed. A 7-month-old baby might not remember that, but that story is always going to be there," Rosenbaum said. "You knew they had a stroller. What makes you walk up to someone with a stroller and shoot them?"

Two years ago, Billips reportedly was the victim of a shooting that took place just a few blocks away from where Thursday's shooting occurred.

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High school students invent device to help teacher’s wheelchair-bound husband stroll with their baby​



Thanks to a group of innovative high school students in Maryland, one father who uses a wheelchair is now able to safely take his newborn baby on a stroll.

What are the details?

For most parents, transporting their young children around in a stroller is a basic and expected part of life. But for 37-year-old Jeremy King, strolling with his new child was a simple pleasure he never thought he'd be able to enjoy, WRC-TV reported earlier this month.

In 2017, King underwent surgery to remove a baseball-sized cancerous tumor from his brain. The operation was successful, but King has been left with significant mobility and speech challenges and most of the time is forced to use a wheelchair to get around.

Fortunately for him, his wife, 32-year-old Chelsie King teaches middle school drama at Bullis School, a private K-12 school in Potomac, Maryland, where there happens to be a group of particularly inventive students.

After the couple's online search for a wheelchair-friendly stroller proved unfruitful, Chelsie King took her concerns to a colleague at the high school, Matt Zigler, who runs a creative lab where students take part in hands-on projects, the Washington Post reported.

"I approached him as a personal favor," she recalled. "I know he's a whiz at building things and is an incredibly collaborative person."

She expected that he would rattle off a few potential ideas, but instead, Zigler asked if he could in turn share the concerns with students in his "Making for Social Good" class.

Before long, a group of 10 students at the school went to work brainstorming, gathering information, running tests, and ultimately constructing a device that safely allows King — and other parents with impeded mobility — to safely stroll with a child.

High School Students Create Wheelchair Stroller for Teacher's Husband www.youtube.com

What else?

According to the Post, "The class, which decided to name the project 'WheeStroll,' was divided into two teams: One group set out to build an apparatus that would attach an infant car seat to a wheelchair, while the other sought to create a contraption that would safely secure a stroller to a wheelchair for when the child is older."

In the end, the two teams combined their designs to make the finished product, which, according to an instructional guide posted online by Zigler, can be easily constructed at home after the purchase of supplies.

WRC-TV reported that the students' hard work has not gone unrecognized. Their project was entered into an international competition hosted by PrintLab, Autodesk, and partners, and ended up coming away with awards for the "Best Inspirational Story" and "Best Showcase of Iterative Design" for the 14-18 age group.

They weren't in it for the accolades, though. Simply helping someone in the community enjoy an activity others often take for granted was more than enough of a reward.

"These students gave me the opportunity to do something I thought I would never be able to do," Jeremy said, according to the Post. "I'm really grateful."

VIDEO: Unhinged man delivers flurry of unprovoked punches on Asian father — whose 1-year-old child sits in stroller just feet away



Surveillance video caught the moment an Asian man was punched, fell to the sidewalk, and then was hit with a flurry of about a dozen punches to the head and back, KPIX-TV reported.

And it all went down as the victim's 1-year-old child sat in a stroller just feet away in front of Gus's Community Market in San Francisco on Friday afternoon, the station said.

KPIX said the attack against the 36-year-old father came out of nowhere — and from behind.

⚠️ TW / ASIAN FATHER ATTACKED IN MISSION BAY WHILE WALKING WITH 1-YEAR-OLD IN STROLLERThe attack happened Friday… https://t.co/xwnTD0vRFp

— Betty Yu (@BettyKPIX) 1620184697.0

San Francisco police told the station that officers were patrolling the area and immediately arrested 26-year-old Sidney Hammond who faces charges of assault, false imprisonment, and child endangerment. KGO-TV reported that Hammond was arrested less than a month earlier after an assault and for stealing at the same location.

Police added to KPIX that Friday's attack appeared to be random, and no words were exchanged.

The victim's child was unharmed, the station said.

A father's worst nightmare: 'I couldn't protect my child'

The victim spoke to KGO in the aftermath and said "my sense of security has been shattered."

Going only by "Bruce," the victim added the station that he was waiting to cross the street with his child when the attack commenced.

"I was right on the ground, and in that exact second I was trying to shield my head and prevent any worse injuries," he told KGO. "I couldn't protect my child. I was on the floor, and he was in a stroller that was slowly rolling away, so it's definitely very scary as a parent."

Image source: KGO-TV video screenshot

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When asked if he thought the incident was racially motivated, Bruce said the thought did cross his mind, especially given the random nature of the attack and the number of attacks on Asian Americans in the past year.

The incident is shocking to nearby business owners, such as Nani Tsegaye of Tadu Ethiopian restaurant. She says her store location in Mission Bay has actually been broken into and robbed more times than their Tenderloin location, and that dealing with crime is the price of doing business in San Francisco.

"It was a heartbreaking experience," Tsegaye told KGO. "We just expect something to happen now more than we expected before."

Image source: KGO-TV video screenshot

Anything else?

The victim told the station he was speaking out to raise awareness and that he has a wish for the suspect: "That my attacker can be somewhere where he can't harm anyone else, or if he needs help he can get the help he needs."