A Bronx mom taking her kids to school Monday morning was killed by a cold-blooded gunman who fired a bullet into the back of her head as her daughters screamed in horror, police and witnesses said.
The victim - identified by police sources as 30-year-old Lakisha Scriven - was shot execution-style as she loaded her girls into her parked SUV.
"I heard crying and screaming," said neighbor Alicia Parks, 25, who was awoken by the gunshots.
"The only thing I kept hearing was, 'Mommy!," said Parks, an administrative assistant. "When I finally woke up I heard, 'The bad man killed mommy.'"
Scriven died at Jacobi Medical Center an hour and a half after the 7:15 a.m. shooting, police said.
Her girls, aged 5 and 8, were unharmed but traumatized, Parks said.
"[The older girl] kept saying exactly how it happened," said Parks, who took the girls into her home as police swarmed the blood-stained SUV in Wakefield.
"She does remember her mom falling to the floor," said Parks. "After today, you know you're not safe anywhere."
Investigators did not immediately have a motive for the brazen daylight shooting but a police source said "at this point" the killing looked like a hit.
The children, who were being held at Jacobi for observation, told Parks and police that they did not recognize the gunman.
Police believe the killer walked up to Scriven's Ford Explorer as the mother piled her girls into the vehicle.
"She was moving her head," said Irven Parks, Alicia Parks' father, who ran outside and saw Scriven sprawled at the SUV's open back door.
"She bled a lot," said Irven Parks, 52.
Scriven, who police sources said worked for the Administration for Children's Services, lived in a well-maintained apartment building just steps from where she was killed.
"She's very, very sweet," said next door neighbor Sophia Bordeaux, 32, a housekeeper. "She's such a sweet girl."
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