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HARLEM, NY (77WABC) – Police have arrested the man accused of shooting and killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend in Harlem as she came home from her baby shower. The NYPD took 40-year old Justin Soriano into custody in the Bronx Thursday morning.
Police say Soriano got into an argument and then a physical fight with 31-year-old Shanice Young’s current boyfriend at West 128th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard early Sunday morning, just hours after her baby shower.
Witnesses told police that Soriano shot the 9 months pregnant Young in the face while one of her older children watched. Young was she was taking gifts into her lobby. She had two other daughters and was pregnant with another girl.
Young was pronounced dead at the scene. Her baby also died with her.