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Antiq Hennis, one, was shot in the face as gunfire rang out in the Brownsville area of Brooklyn at 19:20 on Sunday evening (23:20 GMT).
The bullets were intended for the boy's father, police sources told US media.
The baby's parents accompanied him to hospital where he was declared dead from a gunshot wound to the left side of his face.
Witness Gina Gamboa, 23, told the New York Post: "I heard three to four shots.
"I saw a man with a stroller screaming: 'My baby got shot! My baby got shot!' He was going crazy."
City Councilman Charles Barron told the New York Daily News: "The child didn't even get a chance to start his life, and now it's over."
People marched in the streets in outrage at "stop and frisk" laws, to have them abolished.
Another victim of gun crime...this time a baby in a pushchair.
Don't tell me -- lemme guess. The shooter is black, right?
Authorities have some leads in the killing of Antiq Hennis on a Brooklyn street on Sunday night and believe his death may be gang-related, police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. Antiq's father, Anthony Hennis, has a criminal record and wasn't cooperating with police in their investigation, said Kelly, who didn't elaborate. Hennis, 21, had just gone to pick up Antiq at the home of the baby's mother, Cherise Miller, and take him to visit Hennis' grandmother, police said. Hennis put the boy in the stroller and was pushing him across a street in the Brownsville neighborhood when shots rang out, police said.
Hennis' grandmother, Lenore Steele, said she heard shots before Hennis ran up to her. "And he fell on the ground and said, 'Grandma, my baby got shot! My baby got shot, Grandma!'" said Steele, flanked by community group leaders and mayoral candidate Bill Thompson. "He was such a beautiful little baby, smiling and talking to everybody." Grief and outrage over Antiq's shooting loomed over the annual West Indian Day Parade about a mile and a half away, where Mayor Michael Bloomberg called the killing "a tragedy for his family, for this community, for the entire city" and political candidates talked about gun violence.
Mourners visit a memorial for Antiq Hennis, in the Brownsville neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Monday, Sept. 2, 2013, where a day earlier, the 1-year-old boy was shot and killed in his stroller during a walk with his parents. New York Police Department investigators believe the boy's father may have been the intended target and are pursuing leads.
Four shots were fired, and one hit Antiq in the left side of his head; he was declared dead on arrival at a hospital. Hennis and Miller couldn't immediately be reached for comment Monday. Possible phone numbers for their homes were disconnected or rang unanswered, the offices of attorneys who may have represented Hennis were closed and activists who spoke at a news conference said Miller wouldn't be making a statement Monday.
Bishop Willie Billips, who drove the parents to the hospital to identify the body of their only child, said, "The family is suffering right now." "To have to take a young couple to identify their baby's body is horrible," said Billips, of the Church of Faith, Hope and Charity.
More Cops: Dad of NY tot shot in stroller likely target | CNS News
Don't tell me -- lemme guess. The shooter is black, right?
