Around 11:00 a.m. Sunday a Pregnant woman and the baby she was carrying was found dead after a shooting in the Frankford Philadelphia
Firing dozen’s of shots at an unknown target and the victim, hundreds of yards away, the 26 year old female got caught in the cross fire Neighbors identified the women as Megan Doto.
Doto was sitting outside her apartment building near Adams Avenue and Griscom Street just before noon on Sunday, watching a neighbor’s 7-year-old child, when gunshots rang out down the block, and the bullets, apparently intended for a man nearby, missed and hit her.
“There was a stray round that traveled, like I said, several hundred yards down the street,” said Police Captain Steven Murianka, “and just, unfortunately, happened to strike where this female was sitting in a chair and struck her in the face.”
The victim, who was eight months pregnant, was taken to Temple University Hospital where doctors tried to save her life and also delivered her baby via C-section. The woman died, and homicide detectives report the premature infant died overnight.
“These guys don’t care about daylight, they don’t care about it being a Sunday, they don’t care how beautiful the weather,” said Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey. “They’re just evil thugs and they will do whatever, whenever they can.”
Police recovered several shell casings from the scene where the gun was apparently fired. Witnesses claim the gunman drove off in a older model, light-colored Ford Crown Victoria.
With help from residents who were not interested in the $40,000 reward the police were able to identify the shooter