A domestic dispute led to a murder suicide on the Upper East Side on Friday, with a 45-year-old mother being shot and killed in front of her 1-year-old child.
A mother was shot and killed in front of her one-year-old child in an apparent murder-suicide stemming from a domestic dispute in Manhattan on Friday morning, police say.Marissa Galloway, 45, was placing her one-year-old baby into her car just before 9 a.m. on East 88th Street between York and East End Avenue when she was approached by Cathleen Lee, 65, the grandmother of Galloway's four-year-old child, who was not present at the scene.
"I saw the lady with the white hair fall onto the sidewalk," Donovan said. "Then when I went closer, I saw there was another woman lying behind the car who was also shot."Police say that Lee used a pistol to shoot herself after she shot Galloway. According to authorities, Lee's adult son shared custody of the four-year-old child with Galloway.
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