Former Probation Officer Kills Mother of Her Grandson, Then Self in Front of 1-Year-Old [Video]

Just before 9 a.m. Friday, July 26, New York City police officers responded to several 911 calls reporting three shots fired just half a block from Gracie Mansion, where they found two women with gunshot wounds to the head.

A loaded gun lay between the two women, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at a press conference just hours after the incident.

Marisa Galloway, 45, was rushed to a nearby Upper East Side hospital, where she succumbed to gunshot wounds to the head and lower back.

Kathleen Leigh, 65, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the NYPD’s preliminary investigation.

Police found Galloway’s 1-year-old child, who was unharmed, inside the mother’s parked white Honda Civic, according to Kenny.

Leigh was the paternal grandmother to Galloway’s 4-year-old child, who was the subject of an ongoing custody dispute between the parents, according to police, who said they had …