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A retired Chicago woman gunned down her grandson's mother in an upscale New York City neighborhood just steps from the mayor's home as part of a deadly custody dispute over a 4-year-old girl, city police said Friday. Then she killed herself as a 1-year-old sat in a carseat steps away.
The NYPD said Friday morning that Marisa Galloway, 46, had been shot in the head and the back on a Manhattan street by Kathleen Leigh, the 66-year-old grandmother of Galloway’s 4-year-old child.
"What we have on video, Ms. Galloway puts the child in the backseat of the car. She is then in the process of putting the stroller in the trunk, where she is approached by Ms. Leigh, who shoots her in the head, and when she's on the ground, shoots her in the back," NYPD Chief Joseph Kenny told reporters.
The victim of a shocking murder-suicide in New York City’s Upper East Side has been identified as a schoolteacher and former track and field coach at nearby Fordham University, where she had graduated in 2001.
Police found two pistols at the scene — which played out less than a block from Gracie Mansion, where Mayor Eric Adams lives. Leigh dropped one of them after pulling the trigger on herself, and police recovered the other from a tote bag.
They also found Galloway's other child, a 1-year-old, alive in the back of a car nearby. She is not related to Leigh.
Galloway had just placed the child in a child seat when surveillance video shows Leigh approach and open fire, according to authorities. Then Leigh shot herself.
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Galloway and her killer had a history of domestic disputes believed to have stemmed from custody arrangements regarding the 4-year-old, police said during a morning news briefing.
She had filed five reports and two complaints with the NYPD, none of which resulted in an arrest.
Leigh's son, Kenny Leigh, is the 4-year-old's father.
The killer was a retired probation officer from Chicago, who lived on North Park Avenue in the Windy City until relocating to the Big Apple three years ago, police said.
Responding officers found both women with gunshot wounds to the head.
Paramedics rushed Galloway to the hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries.
Galloway was a former college athlete who returned to her alma mater as a volunteer.
"The Fordham University community is deeply saddened by the tragic death of Marisa Galloway, a Fordham alumna who served as a volunteer assistant track and field coach at Fordham for 17 years until 2019," a school spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
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Galloway earned a bachelor of arts degree from Fordham College at Rose Hill in 2001 and a master's degree in science from the Fordham Graduate School of Education four years later, the school said.
"While at Fordham, she was a high jumper for the Rams and also participated in sprints and relay teams over her career. She capped her senior season in 2001 by placing third in the high jump at the Metropolitan Championships," the statement continued. "We keep Marissa and her loved ones in our thoughts and prayers."
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Wreckage of schooner that sank in 1893 found in Lake Michigan
Marine archaeologists have discovered the wreckage of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in the late 1800s.
The Wisconsin Underwater Archaeology Association announced this month that its searchers found the Margaret A. Muir in 50 feet (15.2 meters) of water off Algoma, Wisconsin, on May 12.
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The Muir was a 130-foot (39.6 meters), three-masted schooner that was built in 1872. The ship was en route from Bay City, Michigan, to South Chicago, Illinois, with a cargo of bulk salt. It had almost reached Ahnapee, which is now known as Algoma, when it sank during a storm on the morning of Sept. 30, 1893.
According to the association, the six-member crew and Captain David Clow made it to shore in a lifeboat, but Clow’s dog went down with the ship. Clow remarked that "I would rather lose any sum of money than to have the brute perish as he did," according to an association news release.
The association's president, Great Lakes shipwreck researcher Brendon Baillod, persuaded the organization to undertake a search for the Muir last year after narrowing the search grid to about five square miles using historical records. Searchers were making their final pass of the day on May 12 and were retrieving their sonar equipment when they ran over the wreck.
Images of the wreck show the vessel's deck has collapsed, and the sides have fallen outward.
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Trump to return to Pennsylvania for first time since assassination attempt
Weeks after an attempt was made on his life at a rally in Butler, former President Donald Trump is slated to return to Pennsylvania to appear at a Harrisburg venue on Wednesday.
The Republican nominee will speak to his supporters at the Pennsylvania Farm Show, which is about 220 miles away from the Butler Farm Show site where shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks grazed his ear with a bullet, narrowly missing his head on July 13.
Harrisburg Director of Communications Matt Maisel told Fox News Digital on Friday that Trump had made "multiple visits to the farm show complex multiple times since his time as president" and that the city has had "zero issues every time that he's come here."
He also said that the Harrisburg Police Department would just be controlling traffic in the vicinity of the rally, and that on-site security measures would be handled by the Secret Service, Pennsylvania State Police and Pennsylvania Capitol Police.
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"Sure, you've had your run-of-the-mill protests outside of the complex, but there have been no issues related to that," Maisel said.
The U.S. Secret Service was tight-lipped about security measures for the event and whether they would be heightened in light of the assassination attempt earlier this month.
"The safety and security of our protectees is the U.S. Secret Service’s top priority. Out of concern for operational security, the Secret Service does not discuss the means and methods used for our protective operations."
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Pennsylvania State Police told Fox News Digital that they would assist the U.S. Secret Service in policing the event.
"The Pennsylvania State Police routinely aids USSS and our federal partners during large events in Pennsylvania and will always provide any and all resources needed to ensure the safety of Pennsylvanians," the agency said via email on Friday.
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Trump was injured at the Butler rally, where the FBI is investigating how Crooks was able to get within about 150 yards of Trump and fire at him.
Trump was injured, as well as attendees James Copenhaver and David Dutch. Firefighter Corey Comperatore lost his life shielding his wife and daughters.
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Trump rally bullet trajectory analysis contradicts FBI 'shrapnel' testimony on Capitol Hill: report
A new look at the attempted assassination of former President Trump at a July 13 campaign rally found that the first of eight bullets fired by gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks likely struck the Republican candidate in the ear, according to a new report.
The New York Times reported Friday that its own analysis of bullet trajectory, video, audio and photo evidence "strongly suggests" that the gunman's first shot "grazed" Trump's ear.
In all, at least three of the shots came close to seriously injuring the former president, according to the paper's analysts.
Trump, who was photographed from multiple angles bleeding from the right side of his head moments after the failed attempt on his life killed one of his supporters and seriously hurt two others, has said since the night of the attack that it was a bullet that struck him.
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Later Thursday, senior Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller shared a memo from Dr. Ronny Jackson, the former presidential physician for Trump and Barack Obama, who wrote that after reviewing medical records from the incident, the Republican candidate had been treated for a "gunshot wound to the right ear."
"Having served as an Emergency Medicine physician for over 20 years in the United States Navy, including as a combat physician on the battlefield in Iraq, I have treated many gunshot wounds in my career," he wrote. "Based on my direct observations of the injury, my relevant clinical background, and my significant experience evaluating and treating patients with similar wounds, I completely concur with the initial assessment and treatment provided by the doctors and nurses at Butler Memorial Hospital on the day of the shooting."
However, investigators have suggested it may have been debris.
"There’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear," FBI Director Christopher Wray testified during a House hearing this week.
Jackson disagreed.
"There is absolutely no evidence that it was anything other than a bullet," he wrote in the memo. "Congress should correct the record as confirmed by both the hospital and myself. Director Wray is wrong and inappropriate to suggest anything else."
The director's statement prompted a fiery response from Trump himself earlier in the week, when he blasted Wray on his social media platform Truth Social.
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"FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress yesterday that he wasn’t sure if I was hit by shrapnel, glass, or a bullet (the FBI never even checked!), but he was sure that Crooked Joe Biden was physically and cognitively ‘uneventful’ - Wrong!" wrote Trump, who nominated Wray for the directorship back in 2017.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Thursday told NBC News evidence showed it was a bullet that went through Trump's ear and that Wray had "a credibility problem."
"We've all seen the video we've seen the analysis we've heard it from multiple sources in different angles that a bullet went through his ear," Johnson said. "I'm not sure it matters that much."
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The FBI told Fox News Digital Thursday its priority was learning more about the reclusive would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, and his motive.
"Since the day of the attack, the FBI has been consistent and clear that the shooting was an attempted assassination of former President Trump which resulted in his injury, as well as the death of a heroic father and the injuries of several other victims," a spokesperson said.
"FBI Director Wray provided extensive congressional testimony on Wednesday about the FBI’s investigation. This was a heinous attack and the FBI is devoting enormous resources to learn everything possible about the shooter and what led to his act of violence."
However, the FBI's Shooting Reconstruction Team was still examining evidence from the scene – including recovered bullet fragments.
Crooks fatally struck 50-year-old Corey Comperatore and critically wounded David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 74.
Fox News' Scott McDonald contributed to this report.
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