One month after a pregnant woman was shot and killed, her child has died, the Minneapolis Police Department announced Wednesday.
On July 5, Minneapolis police officers responded to the area of 37th Street East and Elliot Avenue on a report of a possible shooting, where they found an adult pregnant woman suffering from a gunshot wound. She was transported to the hospital where she delivered the infant. She was later pronounced dead. The infant was placed in the neonatal intensive care unit.
In mid-July, Zachary Victor Robinson Jr. was arrested in Illinois and charged with the murder of the mother.
Minneapolis police were informed early Wednesday morning that the hospitalized infant died. Later Wednesday, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced that Robinson would also be charged with second degree murder of an unborn child.
