NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A pregnant woman was shot by a stray bullet as she sat in a car in Washington Heights on Monday night, police said as they search for a group of men.
The 19-year-old victim was with her boyfriend in the car on W. 165th Street, near Broadway, around 9 p.m. when gunfire erupted.
The bullets were fired haphazardly, striking the woman in the leg, police said.
She was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem and is expected to survive. Her boyfriend was not injured.
Investigators believe the woman was a bystander and not the intended target.
Police are searching for five men who fled the scene. No descriptions of the suspects have been released.
The shooting came hours after a 70-year-old woman was struck by a stray bullet while waiting at a bus stop on Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 2 p.m. Police said a man in his 20s rode by on a scooter while opening fire, leaving the woman wounded and bloodied on the sidewalk.
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