Woman Killed On Bronx Street While With 2-Year-Old Son

Claudia Millan (WCBS 2)

A 29-year-old woman walking with her 2-year-old on Park Avenue between 178th and 179th Streets in the Bronx was shot in the face around 10:30 p.m. last night. Claudia Millan was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital. Her neighbor Michael Escobar told the Daily News he ran outside and pulled little Jamir from his mother's body, "He was down on his knees trying to hold her. She was bleeding out of her head. I tried to stop it. I just couldn't."

Millan had gone to the store and was headed back home, where neighbor Edith Rivera was watching her three other children, a blind 11-year-old son, an 8-year-old daughter, and a 7-year-old son. Rivera said, "She was a very good mother - she was all about her kids and private about everything else. You could eat off the floor of her house she was so clean. Her kids were well-dressed. She loved them." And Millan's brother said to 1010 WINS, "My sister was not killed randomly, it was deliberately done."

Juba Lassiter, described as Millan's husband and the father of three of her children, told the Post he was in Allentown, Pennsylvania at the time of the shooting and that Jamir "keeps asking for his mom - it's just heartbreaking... The young ones only know she got shot - it's too hard to tell them that she's dead."

There has been a lot of gun violence in the Bronx in recent days: On Friday, a 5-year-old girl, a 15-year-old boy and a 24-year-old man were injured in a shooting in the Soundview section and in the Mott Haven section, two teens were shot last night, one fatally.

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By Jen Chung in News on May 30, 2011 4:25 PM

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Eric MH

"There has been a lot of gun violence in the Bronx in recent days" - as an NYPD patrolman said to me a few weeks back, "It gets busy this time of year."

FU Boy

Dear Piece of Trash Gunman,
I'd like to know why you took this woman's life and left four kids without a mother.

~FuBoy

PS: Here's hoping you die in the slowest, most painful way possible.

m015094

Who walks their 2-year old kid at 10:30 at night?

pixiedust8

A lot of people, even though I don't really understand keeping a little kid up that late (and yes, I have a small child). But that doesn't make her a bad mother.

FU Boy

You, obviously, don't have kids. If / when you do, you'll have a better understanding of the sleeping patterns and problems of young children.

whatidsay

And Millan's brother said to 1010 WINS, "My sister was not killed randomly, it was deliberately done."Clearly more to this story than meets the eye. It's tragic that a child was witness to this, but a deeper tragedy may be behind this story.

RalphE

I completely agree... foolish people might think it plausible that this Bronx mother walking along with her 2-year-old son would be randomly shot dead by a "ghetto animal," but anyone with a whit of sense realizes that this was almost definitely murder in the first degree.

aspiringrapper

Whether it was planned or a random act of violence, "ghetto animal" is an apt description of the people who participate in this lifestyle in in the Bronx & other neighborhoods where this is commonplace.

Guest

Although its irrelevant, it most likely was not murder in the 1st degree. Unlike in most other states, premeditation does not automatically equal 1st degree murder.

http://law.onecle.com/new-york...

The2ndComing

Dam R.I.P.. I feel so bad and sad for the kids.. I'm sick of reading stories like this.. I'm even more sick of hearing Bloomberg and the rest of these lying ass politicians advertising how safe and kozey NYC is when we have a fuking crime problem that should stop being hidden and disguised to save someone's fucking job

Kellie

NYC is one thing .. the bronx is another whole different story. You obviously aren't from the area.

The2ndComing

Maybe its YOU that isn't from the area bcuz the last time I checked, the Bronx is one of the 5 boros of NYC. You obviously are a transplant. Maybe you should visit all 5 of them and see that there is a big problem with murder and overall crime allover the city.. leave Manhattan once in a while, will ya.

TheRealCannibal

+1

RalphE

"Kellie."

Ranger5463

leave her alone troll

she was making a point about safety in different areas OF NYC

iam draize

The subtext of

'the bronx is another whole different story'

is that if you define your community by race and economics then the Bronx might as well be Mars...and you needn’t feel unsafe our outraged when terrible things happen there because it will never happen to you or anyone you know....

and yes, das racist

TheRealCannibal

nah, she's just ignorant

RalphE

LOL... you have Kellie pegged. A real New Yorker would NEVER speak of the Bronx and NYC as different places. An outer-borough person MIGHT speak of going to "the city" when going to Manhattan, but NYC refers to all 5 boros, always.

How are things in Des Moines, Kelly?