The investigation into the shooting death of a former Falls Township woman and her baby presses on, Philadelphia police told reporters Monday morning in a press conference.
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Homicide Captain James Clark said a $20,000 reward is being offered by the city for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the homicide of Megan Doto, 26, and her baby, who died overnight following emergency C-section surgery.
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Detectives and patrol officers have scattered throughout the area surrounding the shooting scene in the 1500 block of Adams Avenue in their search for the shooter, Clark said.
Police told reporters the suspect is believed to be a man in black clothing who fired at a white four-door sedan yards from where eight-months pregnant Doto was sitting and watching over a neighbor’s child late Sunday morning. Clark said a single bullet traveled from the shooting scene and struck Doto in the face.
Investigators have stated multiple times that Doto was not the intended target of the shooting.
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“We’ve brought several people in and they’ve all been released,” Clark said when asked about persons of interest. “We need tips,” he later said.
The a mother of two children with one on the way moved to the city from Falls Township’s Morrisville section within the past few years and lived with her boyfriend. Doto graduated from Pennsbury High School in 2006.
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“It’s very sad and tragic that you have a young lady, 25 years old, in the prime of her life just shot and killed,” Clark said. “It’s even more tragic that it happened to her baby.”
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call the Philadelphia Police Department Homicide Unit at 215-686-3334.
