A pregnant teenager who was six months pregnant was shot and killed as she slept on Saturday but her baby has survived.
Jasmine Vega, 19, died after being shot in the stomach at her home in Tucson, Arizona, at 4.30am on Saturday.
Relatives who were also asleep awoke to sounds of her screaming but the gunman had fled.
Multiple gunshots were fired into the home but it is not clear if the assailant ever went inside or if it was a targeted killing.
Jasmine Vega, 19, died after being shot in the stomach at her home in Tucson, Arizona, at 4.30am on Saturday
Vega was taken to hospital but died not long afterwards. Doctors were able to save her baby and it is being treated in hospital.
Police have not revealed whether it is a boy or a girl.
No one has been arrested for the killings. Authorities have not said whether they have a suspect in mind.
Jasmine, 19, was married and seemed to be looking forward to becoming a mother.
On social media, she proudly shared photographs of early ultrasound scans.
Jasmine’s unborn baby survived. She was six-months-pregnant when she died and had shared early ultrasounds of her pregnancy
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