Alabama man fatally shoots 6-month-old daughter, kills self, after arguing with child’s mother
Police are trying to piece together a disturbing turn of events that left a 6-month old baby shot and killed, and her grandfather wounded before the shooter turned the gun on himself.
Police are trying to piece together a disturbing turn of events that left a 6-month old baby shot and killed, and her grandfather wounded before the shooter turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.
The murder-suicide took place near Ohatchee, Alabama after police were called to a domestic fight between Trenton Gordon, 23, and the child’s mother, Al.com reported.
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The mother who had an order of protection against Gordon got into an argument with him. Calhoun County Sheriff Matthew Wade said Gordon pulled out a gun, shot the infant’s grandfather in the arm and then ran outside with the baby. He then shot and killed the baby and then shot himself fatally, the sheriff said.
“It’s disturbing; it’s disturbing to me; it’s disturbing to the deputies. It’s just very, very sad, you know, the only thing I know to do is to pray for the mother, as she laid there, weeping with her child,” Sheriff Wade said.
The grandfather was treated at a Birmingham hospital, WBRC reported.
Gordon was a registered sex offender.
sheriff: Trenton Gordon 23 of Anniston had possession of baby for several days, had no formal custody agreement with child’s mother; had a protection from abuse order against him #WBRC pic.twitter.com/2dANn4X3gq
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Black premature babies face racial disparities in healthcare, study says
It’s a sad turn of events when tragedy strikes a baby.
And it’s even more sad to find that Black preemies face higher chances that they will receive poor prenatal care than white, Asian-American and Hispanic babies, and this is partially due to the quality of their parents’ healthcare as well as segregation, according to a JAMA Pediatrics study released last week.
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The study looked at black newborn babies born prematurely or with low birth weights at 700 neonatal intensive care units, according to UPI.
“Our results provide evidence for segregation and inequality in the care of very low-birth-weight and very preterm infants,” researchers wrote in the study. “Compared with white infants, Black infants received care at lower-quality NICUs and Asian infants at higher-quality NICUs after accounting for region of residence.”
“Black, Hispanic, and Asian very low-birth-weight and very preterm infants are segregated across NICUs reflecting the uneven distribution of minority populations in the United States,” the study continues. “Explaining these patterns will require understanding the effects of sociodemographic factors and public policy on hospital quality, access, and choice for minority women and their infants.”
Read more here.
