Grandmother shot former daughter-in-law: NYPD

A terminally ill woman shot her former daughter-in-law and then herself in broad daylight, police in New York City say.

The violence involved custody of a four-year-old child that the victim, 45-year-old Marisa Galloway, shared with the son of the suspect, 65-year-old Kathleen Leigh.

According to police, Galloway – reportedly a special education teacher, avid runner and longtime track and field coach at Fordham University – was seen on surveillance video placing her youngest child, a 1-year-old girl, in the back seat of a white Honda Civic on East 88th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood, just half a block from the mayor’s Gracie Mansion, on Friday morning.

As Galloway was backing up a stroller, Leigh, a retired parole officer who had lived with family in the area during her battle with cancer, allegedly walked up to her and shot her in the head. Then, as Galloway lay on the ground, Leigh shot her in the lower back and then shot herself, officials said, citing surveillance footage.