Two women were shot, with one killed and one left clinging to life, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan as a child sat in the back seat of a car nearby, cops and sources said.
The two victims were shot on East 88th Street near York Avenue in an apparently domestic-related incident minutes before 9 a.m., according to police and sources.
One was pronounced dead at the scene and the other was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, where she is listed in critical condition, sources said.
A 4-year-old child was sitting in the back seat of a car at the time, but it’s unclear whether the deadly violence happened inside the car or outside, sources said.
A witness told The Post he initially thought the gunfire came from nearby Gracie Mansion.
“I heard yelling, and then I heard shots. I jumped into my doorway for cover,” the man said, as sirens blared around him. “And then I looked and I saw the lady with the white hair fall onto the sidewalk. I thought something might have happened down by Gracie Mansion and she was hit by a stray bullet.”
“But then when I went closer, I saw there was another woman lying behind the car who was also shot,” he added. “There was a 4-year-old child in the car. I called 911. The police responded immediately, and EMS.”
The witness said the woman on the sidewalk appeared older, and more seriously injured, possibly having been shot in the head.
The younger woman in the street was “slightly breathing at the time,” he recounted.
No further details were immediately available.