Innocent bystander Megan Doto was shot in the face as she sat outside her home. Her baby son was delivered alive, but later died.A newborn baby delivered by C-section after his mother was killed in a drive-by shooting has also tragically died. Megan Doto, 26, was an innocent bystander when she was shot in the face in Philadelphia yesterday. Medics managed to save her unborn child, and the infant was fighting for his life after being delivered by emergency C-section. But sadly he too has now also died.
Doto, who had two other children, was watching a neighbour's daughter when the shooting happened on Sunday morning. As she sat with an unidentified man outside a home in the Frankford section of the city just before midday, a gunman driving the wrong way down the street opened fire.
Police believe the killer was aiming for a man nearby, but the bullets missed their target and hit the young mum through her right cheek. Police Captain Stephen Murianka told philly.com: "It's a horrific circumstance. She was not the intended target; she was just unfortunately in the wrong place at the wrong time." Emergency services took Ms Doto to hospital, where her newborn baby was delivered.
The baby boy, who she wanted to name Carmine Joseph, was not due until October. Police have not identified a suspect, but said they were looking for a white car seen leaving the scene of the shooting.
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