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NYC man arrested for killing ex-girlfriend after baby shower
Justin Soriano, 40, was picked up at a Bronx home by the borough’s Warrants Squad in connection to the slaying of Shanice Young in Harlem on September 16, 2021.
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NYC man arrested for killing ex-girlfriend after baby shower
By
Joe Marino,
Tina Moore and
Amanda Woods
September 16, 2021 1:42pm
Updated
The man who allegedly fatally shot his pregnant ex-girlfriend shortly after her baby shower in Harlem was busted early Thursday, according to police sources.
Justin Soriano, 40, was picked up at a Bronx home by the borough’s Warrants Squad in connection to the slaying of Shanice Young, 31, at West 128th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard around 1 a.m. Sunday, the sources said.
He was taken to Harlem’s 32 Precinct, where charges are pending, according to the sources.
Soriano was chasing around Young’s current boyfriend when she tried to intervene in the fight, cops said.
Young, who was eight months pregnant with her second child, was shot once in the head and later pronounced dead at the hospital, authorities said.
Her unborn baby did not survive, cops said.
Cops released a photo of Soriano Tuesday.
Justin Soriano was arrested by NYPD officers after shooting his pregnant girlfriend after her baby shower. NYPD 
Shanice Young was shot and killed by her ex-boyfriend Justin Soriano while trying to intervene in a fight her current boyfriend and Soriano were having. Family HandoutSoriano has nine prior arrests on his record. The most recent was in 2016 for criminal possession of a controlled substance. His other charges included resisting arrest, criminal sale of a controlled substance and assault, police sources said.