UES shooting: Mother shot, killed in front child; grandmother involved in murder-suicide

NEW YORK - A woman shot and killed the mother of her grandchild in an apparent murder-suicide on Manhattan's Upper East Side on Friday, according to police.

NYPD officials said two women were found with gunshot wounds around 9 a.m. at E 88th Street between York and East End, a half a block away from the mayor's residence at Gracie Mansion.

They were discovered next to a Honda Civic, where a 4-year-old was sitting in the backseat.

The victim was a 45-year-old woman, believed to be the mother of the toddler in the car. Police said the shooter was a 65-year-old retired Cook County, Illinois, probation officer who had been living with family members in New York City.

The retired probation officer is believed to be the grandmother of the victim's child, police said.

Detectives said they believe the grandmother shot the mother and then herself. 

SkyFOX video showed heavy police activity near 519 East 88th Street, where both women were found.

One resident who lives across from the scene of the shooting told FOX 5 NY that the incident has rattled the neighborhood. 

"It's more about gun control ... and that it could happen right across from Gracie Mansion. Nowhere is safe in the new New York," Lori Selinger said.

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