Jennygirl
05-11-2007, 10:03 AM
PITTSBURGH -- Three people, including an infant boy, narrowly escaped from a drive-by shooter early Thursday morning on the North Side, Pittsburgh police said.
A woman told police that she was driving on Wilson Avenue with her 11-month-old son and another woman at about 3:30 a.m. They were returning from taking the baby to a hospital to be treated for an ear infection.
The driver said a white Cadillac slowly pulled up beside them in the 2200 block of Wilson, and as it pulled ahead, a man leaned out of a window and fired gunshots.
Several bullets struck the woman's windshield, police said, and one of them passed through and struck the rear glass, next to the baby's car seat.
"My friend said, 'He has a gun, get down,' and we just, I was looking at him, and he just leaned out the window and just started firing on us," said the baby's mother.
The shooter's car continued up Wilson and turned onto Drum Street, police said.
Neither of the women knew the shooter's car or could identify the man, police said.
The driver suffered an abrasion on her cheek from the broken glass, and the child was not hurt, police said.
"He was OK," said the mother. "But just, like, had shattered glass all on him, and he wasn't injured."
A woman told police that she was driving on Wilson Avenue with her 11-month-old son and another woman at about 3:30 a.m. They were returning from taking the baby to a hospital to be treated for an ear infection.
The driver said a white Cadillac slowly pulled up beside them in the 2200 block of Wilson, and as it pulled ahead, a man leaned out of a window and fired gunshots.
Several bullets struck the woman's windshield, police said, and one of them passed through and struck the rear glass, next to the baby's car seat.
"My friend said, 'He has a gun, get down,' and we just, I was looking at him, and he just leaned out the window and just started firing on us," said the baby's mother.
The shooter's car continued up Wilson and turned onto Drum Street, police said.
Neither of the women knew the shooter's car or could identify the man, police said.
The driver suffered an abrasion on her cheek from the broken glass, and the child was not hurt, police said.
"He was OK," said the mother. "But just, like, had shattered glass all on him, and he wasn't injured."