Shadina Smith, 29, had just left her apartment on West 150th Street near Frederick Douglass Blvd. in Harlem at around 12.30pm on January 16, when she quickly returned home to alert her partner.
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Harlem mother, 29, shot dead after she and her 26-year-old fiance confronted a man who groped her in the street is remembered as 'an amazing person with a big heart'
- Shadina Smith, 29, had just left her apartment on West 150th Street near Frederick Douglass Blvd. in Harlem at around 12.30pm on January 16
- Smith and her fiance, identified on social media as 26-year-old Josh Hall, rushed outside and got into a argument with the suspect
- It was then that gunfire erupted at the scene
- Hall was hit in the chest and left arm while Smith was struck three times in the chest
- The couple were rushed to the Harlem Hospital, where Smith died; Hall has since been released
- Smith was the mother of a one-year-old boy
- Shadina's aunt Corine Booker remembered the young mom as being 'very invested in her son and his future'
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MATTHEW WRIGHT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 11:17 EST, 2 February 2021 | UPDATED: 12:00 EST, 2 February 2021
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Shadina Smith, 29, had just left her apartment on West 150th Street near Frederick Douglass Blvd. in Harlem at around 12.30pm on January 16, when she quickly returned home to tell her fiance she had been groped
A Harlem woman described as a 'wonderful mother' was fatally gunned down in Manhattan while her fiance was left injured after the pair confronted a man who had just groped her moments earlier.
Shadina Smith, 29, had just left her apartment on West 150th Street near Frederick Douglass Blvd. at around 12.30pm on January 16 when she was accosted in the street by a man who grabbed her.
She responded by heading back to her apartment to tell her fiance what had happened.
Smith and her fiance, identified on social media as 26-year-old Josh Hall, then rushed outside and got into a argument with the suspect that escalated into gunfire, the
New York Daily News reports.
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The pair were hit with numerous bullets while inside of the first-floor hallway of their apartment complex, according to authorities.
Hall was hit in the chest and left arm while Smith was struck three times in the chest.
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Smith and her fiance, identified on social media as 26-year-old Josh Hall, rushed outside and got into a argument with the suspect. He then shot at the couple
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The pair were hit with numerous bullets while inside of the first-floor hallway of their apartment complex
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The couple were rushed to the Harlem Hospital, where Smith died. Hall has since been released from the hospital.
At the shooting scene, police detectives found casings that led them to believe that the gunman fired from outside the building, into the hallway.
The suspect is still on the loose.
Corine Booker, Smith's 33-year-old aunt and close friend, described the mother as being obsessed with her young son Uriel - who is just over one year old.
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Hall was hit in the chest and left arm while Smith was struck three times in the chest
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Corine Booker, Smith's 33-year-old aunt and close friend, described the mother as being obsessed with her young son Uriel - who is just over one year old
'It's been a horrific nightmare situation,' Booker said of the shooting.
She later added: 'She was very invested in her son and his future. I hate that he won't be able to know how wonderful and how resilient she was. She did not pout,' she said. 'We just want to make sure to give him all that love.'
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GoFundMe for 'Dina' shares that she was an 'amazing person with a big heart.'
'She always checked up on her loved ones and made sure she did whatever she could to make sure everyone was okay,' the fundraiser reads. 'She had a fire inside her which attracted anyone who crossed her path. She was funny, witty and had such a positive vibe.'
The mother's death comes as the Big Apple has seen an increase in violent crimes, especially in fatal shootings. Murders in New York City went up more than 40 percent from 2019 to 2020.
According to the most recent available data, through January 24, there have been 726 reported robberies and 1,193 felony assaults in New York City so far this year.
That is down 27.4 per cent and 4.8 per cent, respectively, from 2020, when there were already exactly 1,000 robberies and 1,253 felony assaults at this time.