New York homicide squad investigating death of pregnant woman shot inside car; fetus also dies

8/31/2014

BAY SHORE, N.Y. — A homicide squad in New York is investigating the death of a pregnant woman found with multiple gunshot wounds inside her car. Her fetus didn’t survive, either.

Suffolk County police say they responded to a call of gunshots at about 8:40 p.m. Saturday and found 31-year-old Milagro G. Canjura unresponsive outside her home in Bay Shore on Long Island.

She was taken by ambulance to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, where she and the fetus were pronounced dead.

Police didn’t say how far along Canjura was in her pregnancy.