NYC man who killed pregnant ex-girlfriend in front of kids hours after baby shower sentenced to 40 years to life in prison

A Bronx man convicted of gunning down his pregnant ex-girlfriend in front of her kids just hours after her baby shower was sentenced to 40 years to life behind bars on Thursday.

Justice Ann Scherzer slapped the prison term on Justin Soriano, 44, inside Manhattan Supreme Court for the grisly slaying of his eight-month pregnant ex gal pal, Shanice Young, outside her Harlem home in September 2021.

Soriano — who was convicted on murder, criminal possession of a weapon, menacing and endangering the welfare of a child charges in November — pulled up to her building on a motorcycle as Young’s family and her new boyfriend unloaded baby shower gifts from a car into the apartment, while the expectant mom sat in the passenger seat, prosecutors said at the trial.

Wearing all black and latex gloves, Soriano stormed into the building and then whipped out a gun and chased her boyfriend outside.

The 31-year-old mom stepped out of the car while her two daughters, 15 and 6, and the new boyfriend’s children — a 7-year-old girl and 1-year-old baby — sat in the vehicle.

Young asked “why he was doing this,” and the enraged ex repeated the question before blasting her three times in the face around 1 a.m. near West 128th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, according to prosecutors.