Moment Philadelphia baby is shot in leg by stray gunfire - before seven month-old infant's parents make shockingly cruel decision

A seven-month-old babe was changeable and near to fend for himself while bleeding aft a gunwoman opened occurrence connected his parents and they fled.

The boy was being pushed successful a pram by his parents on Meridian Street successful Holmesburg, Philadelphia, astatine 5.51pm connected Thursday.

CCTV showed a female abruptly attack them, occurrence astatine nan couple, past locomotion distant aft 1 of nan bullets deed nan babe successful nan leg.

The boy's begetter instantly sprinted distant arsenic nan shooter fired doubly successful his direction, while nan mother stayed pinch nan babe successful nan pram.

The gunwoman walked past nan mother and child, past casually turned backmost and fired past nan mother from point-blank range.

The mother fto retired a bloodcurdling scream, wailing 'my baby', to which nan shooter callously responded 'F**k your baby, b***h' and walked away.

Police said erstwhile they arrived astatine nan segment neither of nan parents were location and nan babe was rushed to infirmary by a neighbor.

Neither of nan parents were injured, and are believed to person near because they had warrants retired for their arrests and were not recovered until an hr later.

The begetter was later detained by constabulary and some parents are being questioned by police. They do not unrecorded in Holmesburg and it was unclear why they were there.

Police are hunting nan gunman, who was caught connected camera but is not yet identified. Investigators don't yet cognize nan motive for nan shooting.

The neighbour who came to nan baby's assistance described really nan mother handed him nan kid and he drove her successful his car to Nazareth Hospital. 

'When I find retired nan babe was 7 months and some parents said they person warrants. They sewage retired nan car and I took nan baby,' he told NBC,

'I conscionable felt for illustration I had to protect this child. It was overwhelming. It was scary. This personification came up and didn't attraction pinch nary remorse and conscionable fired and walked distant for illustration thing happened.'

Police later transferred nan babe to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital, wherever he is successful a unchangeable condition. 

Chief Inspector Scott Small said constabulary recovered 2 spent ammunition casings from a semi-automatic weapon.

'You tin spot what appears to beryllium a male, perchance a female, agelong hair, perchance dreadlocks, wearing a acheronian t-shirt and ray bluish jeans and occurrence a changeable successful nan guidance of nan mother and father,' he said of nan shooting footage.