Police in Mississippi say 24-year-old Mashayla Harper’s unborn child was killed as a result of a hit-and-run accident thirty minutes after Harper left her baby shower.
Harper was thirty-six weeks pregnant.
Harper’s mother was driving about six or seven cars behind her daughter when traffic suddenly stopped.
The mother asked someone what happened up ahead and the driver told her a pregnant woman had just got into a car accident.
The mother says she instantly knew it was her daughter.
When the mother arrived on the scene, Harper was on the ground in front of her car and the driver’s door was missing as a result of the crash.
The driver of the vehicle that hit Harper’s car, 35-year-old James Gilbert, fled the scene but was apprehended later that night.
He has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident with injuries.
Harper suffered severe trauma including abdominal, knee and leg injuries and is still hospitalized.
A service for Harper’s unborn daughter was held Wednesday but she was unable to attend.
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