Pregnant NC teen fatally shot at school bus stop

[samanthajane13]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Police say a pregnant 15-year-old was shot and killed Monday morning as she waited at a North Carolina school bus stop.

Police spokesman Rob Tufano says Tiffany Wright was shot in the head in Charlotte. She died after being rushed to a hospital. She was 32 weeks along in her pregnancy. Her baby was delivered alive, but the child was not expected to survive.

Tufano says investigators were still trying to determine whether the shooting was random. He says a relative who went home after walking Wright to the bus stop heard gunshots and came out to find the teen in the street.

The girl attended Hawthorne High School, an alternative school with a special program for pregnant teens.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090914/...l_bus_shooting

[Frieda]

Apparently her brother is being held for rape. I didn't quite get whether she was adopted or whether the brother was. Any way his is 36, she is 15 and he admitted raping her.

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/20899919/detail.html

http://www.wcnc.com/news/topstories/...17b609357.html

Frieda

[samanthajane13]

NC cops investigate brother of slain pregnant teen

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Police said Tuesday they were investigating whether the 36-year-old brother of a pregnant teenager killed at a school bus stop fathered the girl's baby.

Royce Mitchell was also being questioned in the death of his sister Tiffany Wright, 15, who had been adopted by Mitchell's parents. However, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police spokesman Bob Fey characterized Mitchell as a person of interest rather than a suspect.

Wright, an 11th-grader at Hawthorne High School who was eight months pregnant, was shot early Monday while she waited at a school bus stop in north Charlotte. She later died at a hospital. Police have said the slaying stemmed from a domestic dispute.

Wright's baby was delivered at Carolinas Medical Center hours after the shooting. The child had been in critical condition Monday. A hospital spokeswoman declined to provide the baby's condition Tuesday morning.

Mitchell turned himself in Monday on an outstanding warrant charging him with statutory rape and taking indecent liberties with a minor. It was unclear whether those charges were related to Wright.

He was being held Tuesday in the Mecklenburg County Jail without bond. He will likely retain an attorney after an initial court hearing on Tuesday. Mitchell was a street maintenance worker for the city.

Wright's grandmother, Shirley Boston of Buffalo, N.Y., said the girl was born in the northeastern New York city, where her father also lives. Boston said Tuesday that Wright was placed in foster care after the girl's mother lost custody. Boston said she does not know how her granddaughter ended up in Charlotte.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090915/...l_bus_shooting

[Gaiar]

Sadly today I read that the child also ended up passing away. I have not heard specifics if it was directly due to injuries from the shooting or indirectly from the shooting however.

[samanthajane13]

Gaiar-

Thanks so very much for updating this story...such a very sad ending for Tiffany and her little one.

RIP, Tiffany and baby!
May you sleep in the arms of angels...