Pregnant Woman Uses Last Words to Save Baby
A dying woman who had just been shot called 911 on Saturday night in Raleigh, NC, and said just enough to save her unborn baby, WNCN reports.
Kimberly Richardson, 25, who was six months' pregnant, made the chilling call behind the Triangle Town Center
where she worked: "Help," she says. "I've been shot." Asked to give her phone number, she says, "I can't ... I can't talk." Between long silences,
WRAL reports, Richardson added the key words: "He shot me." Richardson later died in hospital, and her daughter was saved by an
emergency cesarean section.
Richardson's boyfriend, 25-year-old Daniel Steele, was arrested at his home that night and promptly charged with first-degree murder.
No motive was given, and Steele may or may not be the girl's father, the News & Observer reports.
We do know he once worked as a security guard at the Town Center, but quit in October. As for Richardson, she "was really, really happy" about being
pregnant, says a friend, who describes her as devoted to faith and music. But the friend declined to say more: "I'd rather focus more on who she was as a
person and how much she pursued the Lord and I want to focus on the good of that baby," she says.
The baby is still hospitalized, her condition under wraps. Meanwhile, a fundraising account has raised $6,000 as of this writing to help the family with funeral costs and possible medical bills for the daughter, identified as Lacy: She "was born premature due to the tragic loss of her mother," the account says.
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