An Amazon employee in Minnesota allegedly shot and killed his pregnant fiancée days before she was as a result of deliver their baby – who was later born at a hospital and is clinging to life.
Kyla O’Neal, 31, was rushed to the hospital after she was shot within the car parking zone of the Amazon warehouse within the Minneapolis suburb of Lakeville, CBS News reported.
She didn’t survive but her son Messiah was delivered and is reportedly clinging to life.
O’Neal leaves behind three other children, including a daughter she also had with Donte Rapheal McCray, 32, who has been charged with second-degree manslaughter.
“I would like him to tug through this,” Kyla’s mom, Katina O’Neal, told CBS News, referring to Messiah. “I need him to. I can’t lose each of them, not at once, no.”
The devastated mom said the newborn “has no brain functioning at once,” but that she was “holding onto faith.”
Katina added: “God got the last word, so hopefully He gives him to me.”
She said her daughter had ended her relationship with McCray shortly before the shooting.
“She didn’t deserve what happened to her. She had a promising future,” Katina said.
Police Cmdr. William Gerl told KKTV that when a pregnant woman is critically wounded “it just adds one other whole layer of stress and emotion to that decision because now we’ve got one other human being we’re trying to save lots of as well.”
He added: “Obviously, we’re all hoping the newborn is doing well and is in a position to survive and thrive, and that will likely be a miracle and great news if that happens.”
In accordance with records, a judge had told McCray in May that he couldn’t possess any firearms due to a criminal conviction.
Amazon told CBS News that the corporate is cooperating with the investigation.
An Amazon employee in Minnesota allegedly shot and killed his pregnant fiancée days before she was as a result of deliver their baby – who was later born at a hospital and is clinging to life.
Kyla O’Neal, 31, was rushed to the hospital after she was shot within the car parking zone of the Amazon warehouse within the Minneapolis suburb of Lakeville, CBS News reported.
She didn’t survive but her son Messiah was delivered and is reportedly clinging to life.
O’Neal leaves behind three other children, including a daughter she also had with Donte Rapheal McCray, 32, who has been charged with second-degree manslaughter.
“I would like him to tug through this,” Kyla’s mom, Katina O’Neal, told CBS News, referring to Messiah. “I need him to. I can’t lose each of them, not at once, no.”
The devastated mom said the newborn “has no brain functioning at once,” but that she was “holding onto faith.”
Katina added: “God got the last word, so hopefully He gives him to me.”
She said her daughter had ended her relationship with McCray shortly before the shooting.
“She didn’t deserve what happened to her. She had a promising future,” Katina said.
Police Cmdr. William Gerl told KKTV that when a pregnant woman is critically wounded “it just adds one other whole layer of stress and emotion to that decision because now we’ve got one other human being we’re trying to save lots of as well.”
He added: “Obviously, we’re all hoping the newborn is doing well and is in a position to survive and thrive, and that will likely be a miracle and great news if that happens.”
In accordance with records, a judge had told McCray in May that he couldn’t possess any firearms due to a criminal conviction.
Amazon told CBS News that the corporate is cooperating with the investigation.
