Tragedy struck in Gate City, Alabama on Monday afternoon while 24-year-old Sherri Williams was holding her baby in the doorway to her apartment. Shots were fired as two men got into an altercation and started chasing after each other down the street at a nearby grocery store, but it would be Williams who would be the only victim when all was said and done.

One of the bullets went astray, hitting Williams in the chest. The victim staggered backward with her 10-day-old baby in tow, eventually falling on her living room couch. By the time paramedics had reached her, Williams was dead at the scene.

"[Sherri] took care of her kids, she didn't bother nobody," her mother Rinda Williams told an ABC affiliate. "My baby's son was trying to break a fight up or something and some dude came behind him shooting and the bullet was just bouncing."

Sherri was a mother to two other children as well, a six-year-old daughter and four-year-old son. She also took care of her mother Rinda, who lived in the apartment with them and suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

"For a long time, she was trying to get out of here," said the victim's uncle Kerry Jackson, who also noted that his niece "kept to herself" and was trying to get out of the neighborhood. "Just imagine if these kids would've been out here playing," he added. "All of the kids are out here, and someone could come through here shooting."

Birmingham police officers are now looking for two suspects in the shooting: a black man in a white tank top and a black woman in a yellow shirt with some of her braids missing. They were last seen driving in a black Chrysler Sebring.

"We know a lot of people are reluctant to come forward, but we're hoping someone with information will call Crime Stoppers," Sergeant Williams of the Birmingham Police Department explained. "You can remain anonymous and give us that bit of information. It is owed to this mother. We have a child now who's lost a mom, so we're asking those people who may have information, come forward."