PHILADELPHIA – A woman is in custody after shooting at a couple, but striking their baby over what police say may have been a narcotics debt.
The shooting happened Thursday night, around 6 p.m., on the 4000 block of Meridian Street, in Philly’s Holmesburg neighborhood.
The woman, identified as 28-year-old Dominique Billips, walked up to a man and a woman, outside with their baby in a stroller, and began firing.
In a Saturday press conference, Lieutenant Dennis Rosenbaum, with the Philadelphia Police Shooting Investigations Group, indicated preliminary information police received pointed to a $100 narcotics debt as a motive for the shooting and the preliminary target appeared to be the father of the baby.
“You see in that video, she really points the gun at the mother of the baby, who’s also a juvenile, and fires. Luckily, she missed,” Lt. Rosenbaum explains the dramatic surveillance video police released Friday. “Obviously, that’s when …