A pregnant 16-year-old was shot outside her apartment on Stanton Street yesterday afternoon in an altercation with her boyfriend. Kimberly Valasquez, who is two months pregnant, was shot shortly after 2:00 p.m. in the second-floor hallway at 210 Stanton Street and was rushed to Bellevue soon after. "Her boyfriend shot her," a girl who identified herself as Valasquez's best friend told the Daily News. "She's out of surgery now—she and the baby are going to be okay."
Police told the paper that they suspected the shooter was Valasquez's boyfriend, and that an arrest was "imminent." And witnesses told the Post that the boyfriend "playing" with the gun before it went off. However an NYPD spokesperson couldn't tell us the name of the suspect, and that no arrest has been made yet.
