Baby-shower horror
Preg mom slain trying to halt fight
A pregnant mom was fatally shot in the head after her baby shower in Harlem early Sunday — when a fight broke out between her beau and ex and she futilely tried to play peacemaker, police and sources said.
Shanice Young, 31 — who was eight months pregnant with her second child — was unloading presents from her car when she found herself between the two feuding men shortly after 1 a.m. outside her apartment building at West 128th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, police said.
It was unclear what sparked the argument.
“She stepped in between to break it up and got caught in the middle,” an NYPD spokesman told The Post.
Young was shot once in the head, allegedly by the ex-boyfriend, who was wearing a camouflage mask, police sources said. The baby Young was carrying also died.
Neighbors said Young had been raising her little sister after their mom died of cancer. The mom also had a 6-year-old daughter.
A friend who only gave her first name, Candice, said Young had just returned from her baby shower at a 112th Street venue when she was killed.
“They were unloading the stuff from the baby shower,” Candice said. “The gifts were lined up in the hallway, and [Young] was going back outside when she got shot.
“I’m shaken up by it,” Candice said. “Who the f--k shoots a pregnant woman? You’ve got to be out of your mind.”
Cops responding to a report of shots fired found Young on the ground between her car and another vehicle, the sources said. Police recovered three .40-caliber shell casings near the scene, sources said.
The super at Young’s building, Jose Morales, said he heard the shots and recalled seeing one cop trying frantically to save the victim’s life.
“I saw them trying to resuscitate her, pumping her chest,” he said. “There was a police officer who was trying so hard to save her. He was pumping and pumping and wasn’t going to stop.
Young was rushed to Harlem Hospital.The gunman was not captured.