LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A coroner says a newborn girl delivered following the fatal shooting of her pregnant mother has died.
A statement from the Fayette County Coroner's Office says 4-day-old Amelia Johnson died Tuesday night from a lack of oxygen due to the death of her mother. Her manner of death was listed as a homicide.
Kentucky State Police have said that 29-year-old Geri D. Johnson of Williamsburg was pronounced dead Saturday at Baptist Health Corbin Hospital. The pregnant woman had been brought to the emergency room with a gunshot wound. Police said the infant was delivered and transferred to the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington in critical condition.
The deaths remain under investigation.
