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    Woman opens fire on parents and baby in a stroller over $100 drug debt

    By Lilith Foster-Collins,

    2024-07-22

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    A woman accused of opening fire on an infant in a stroller and his parents over a suspected drug debt was heard shouting “f*** your baby” during the attack, according to authorities.

    Suspect Dominique Billups, 28, was arrested on Friday, one day after the shooting which unfolded at around 6pm on Thursday in Philadelphia.

    In a video released by the Philadelphia Police Department , a shooter – identified by police as Billups – is seen firing two shots at the adult father, who runs for cover.

    The suspect is then seen walking up to the teenage mother and firing once, hitting the seven-month-old child in the leg.

    “My baby!” the child’s mom cries out in the video.

    “F*** your baby, b****,” the shooter is heard screaming back.

    The suspect then stuffs the gun in her top and walks away.

    “It was like a John Wick movie,” eyewitness Luis Berrios told Fox29 .

    “She came in and just like, boom, boom, boom!”

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    The parents were not at the scene when the police arrived and instead called the police an hour after the shooting.

    The baby was taken to hospital by the eyewitness and is now in a stable condition, with plans being made to release him into the care of his wider family.

    Philadelphia police Lt. Dennis Rosenbaum said at a press briefing on Saturday that the parents had outstanding warrants for their arrests for nonviolent offenses.

    Berrios said that the teenage mother did not abandon her child. “I told them: ‘Trust me, I promise I’ll take care of your baby’,” he told Fox29.

    The incident appears to have stemmed from a $100 narcotics debt, Rosenbaum said at the press conference.

    The father was the initial target of the shooting and had an argument with the suspect shortly before the incident, she said.

    The video was released to the public to try to track down Billups.

    She was arrested on Friday and hit with charges including three counts of aggravated assault and reckless endangerment.

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    Diamond Princess Queen
    08-09
    this why as a parent you should not be smoking drugs and have a lil baby and on crack at that she is wrong for shooting they baby the baby don't understand don't know was going on people need to stay off them drugs I'm glad I never in my life smoke are drink before and I'm in my 40s and still look good and young fir my age because I don't smoke are drink
    Cynthia Timmons
    08-08
    first and foremost this will gets me she wants to be really bad ass full of gun out on these people and their child but then when the police came her ass ran like a coward that she is second is I pray that they give her ass 35 to 40 years in prison it'll be an old lady when she come out this is my thing when she said f*** that baby just imagine if the tables was turned and that was a family member of hers and someone did that to them she would have a fit in over $100 you going to take somebody to life b**** go sit your dumbass down so we're trying to be a drug dealer you selling for the next person you ain't making no money cuz if you did your ass wouldn't have walked up on them and shot him yes would have been in the damn car go get a God damn job a nine to five well paycheck every week every two weeks you got to be one stupid b**** that's walking around oops forgot you walking around behind bars go ahead let him tell you when to take a shower wipe your ass and when to go to sleep
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