Marisa Galloway has been identified as the woman who was shot and killed by her ex-mother-in-law in a murder-suicide in the Upper East Side.
Kathleen Leigh, 65, shot and killed her son’s former wife Marisa, 45, before killing herself.
Galloway and Kathleen’s son had been locked in a custody battle over their four-year-old daughter and she was shot right by her car with her one-year-old daughter in a car seat inside.
The shooting took place around 9 a.m. on East 88th Street – just half a block away from the mayor’s residence, Gracie Mansion.
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Marisa was outside a white Honda Civic with her one-year-old daughter in a car seat in the vehicle when she was ambushed by Leigh.
Leigh then took her own life following the shooting.
A neighbor told the press that Marisa had often complained about being harassed by her ex, Leigh’s son.
“She always talked about the fact that she had a former husband that was harassing the hell out of her. Because I had Child Services at my door one evening asking if I’ve ever heard any problems next door, and I said, no, no, she’s lovely, lovely mother,” neighbor Meryl Fiedelman said.
Police sources said Galloway had made five domestic incident reports and filed two complaint reports against him.
According to police, Leigh was a retired Cook County, Illinois probation officer.
Marisa Galloway graduated from Fordham university in 2001 and earned her master’s in education at the same institution in 2005.
She had for the past 17 years been a volunteer assistant track and field coach at Fordham.