A 22-year-old pregnant woman delivered a healthy baby via C-section just before she succumbed to a bullet in the head in Tampa, Florida.
Brianna Anderson, who was in her third semester, was shot at her house in the city Wednesday. However, the paramedics revived her in the ambulance before C-section was performed on her by the doctors at Tampa General Hospital.
At first the police thought Brianna was dead immediately after being shot.
"Doctors were able to deliver the baby by cesarean section. The child was in stable condition late Wednesday and is expected to survive," according to police, reported The Tampa Bay Times.
"The baby is doing well," said Tampa police spokeswoman Laura McElroy. "It looks like the baby is going to make it."
The police arrested Brianna's 22-year-old boyfriend Jamar Anjuan Silas at around 7:30 pm, according to the Associated Press. Silas is their prime suspect. Officials said that they received a tipoff that Jamar was seen travelling in a blue Hyundai Accent. After a brief manhunt they caught and arrested him.
Officials said he has been charged with illegal possession of a firearm. More charges can further be pressed against him.
Brianna is survived by her three-year-old son, Tyler. On her Facebook account she revealed that she was due sometime in October and was expecting a baby girl. People who knew her said she was a happy-go-lucky person.
"Every time she came to the office, she was happy, jovial," Sharaun Day, who manages the North Boulevard Homes apartments, the place where Brianna stayed, told the Tampa Tribune.
Dede Williams, friend and neighbor of the young deceased mother, said Brianna never complained about being threatened. The AP reported that police did not release a motive for the shooting.
