{"id":229901,"date":"2020-08-28T10:42:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T15:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=229901"},"modified":"2020-08-31T00:50:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T05:50:43","slug":"teen-mom-grieves-preborn-drive-by-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/teen-mom-grieves-preborn-drive-by-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartbreaking: Teen mom grieves after preborn son is killed in drive-by shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A 15-year-old girl is grieving after a drive-by shooting took the life of her preborn baby boy just weeks before his due date. Ma\u2019Tiya Bruster-Lewis was 35 weeks pregnant and was on a walk with an unidentified male near her home in Columbus, Ohio, when gunfire rang out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/news\/local\/pregnant-teen-shot-aug-24-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to police<\/a>, Bruster-Lewis was shot in the stomach and was rushed to Grant Medical Center. She survived, but her baby boy did not. Doctors delivered her son, whom she named Asier Vedal Lewis, but she only got to spend a few moments with him before he was taken off of life support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FWSYXABC6%2Fvideos%2F2998609233601112%2F&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=734&amp;height=521&amp;appId\" width=\"734\" height=\"521\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Columbus Police Deputy Chief Tim Becker <a href=\"https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/news\/local\/pregnant-teen-shot-in-linden-loses-baby-after-drive-by-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke to reporters<\/a> about the devastation drive-by shootings are causing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, they are more than numbers. They are somebody\u2019s child,&#8221; he said. &#8220;In this case, this young man didn\u2019t even have an opportunity to be given a name, because he was killed just weeks before he would have been born naturally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shirley Bolen, one of Bruster-Lewis&#8217; neighbors, heard the gunfire Sunday evening and said she was heartbroken. \u201cThere was a man running up the street hollering, is she dead? Is she dead? They need to do something, but I for one don\u2019t know what it is,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/news\/local\/pregnant-teen-shot-in-linden-loses-baby-after-drive-by-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she told ABC 6<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Her daughter, Missy Bolen, added, \u201cBeing that young and being shot and the loss of a child. She is just a child herself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Soft spoken. Grieving. Teen mom shares her sadness at the loss of her unborn child, Asier Vedal Lewis who was killed in a drive-by shooting this week. She makes a plea to stop the gun violence in Columbus and for the unknown suspect to turn himself in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ColumbusPolice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ColumbusPolice<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sWYbldY7Tz\">pic.twitter.com\/sWYbldY7Tz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lu Ann Stoia (@stoiawsyx6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stoiawsyx6\/status\/1298711798334464001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Bruster-Lewis and her family are speaking out about her experience, begging for justice and for the violence to end. &#8220;They encourage you to walk to make your delivery easier,&#8221; her grandmother, Tamara Lewis, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/news\/local\/family-wants-justice-for-baby-killed-in-northeast-columbus-drive-by-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Lu Ann Stoia<\/a> of ABC 6 News. &#8220;Our hope is to get justice for my grandbaby, for Asier Vedal Lewis. Help us get justice for him. Help us figure out who did this nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>The family believes Asier took the gunfire that saved his mother&#8217;s life, but that is of little comfort to her. &#8220;I&#8217;d rather be dead, though, than my baby,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t have no chance to live in the world. He didn&#8217;t have no chance to grow up.&#8221; And the drive-by shootings have robbed her of a life with her son. &#8220;There&#8217;s always someone shooting out here, it never stops,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It never fails. What do y&#8217;all want to shoot people and kill people for? What is the reason?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Through tears, Bruster-Lewis said, \u201cThey just took my baby from me. I never did nothing to nobody, for him to just pull up and shoot and take my baby from me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O\u2019Brien told ABC 6 that if the shooter is identified and knew Bruster-Lewis was pregnant, his office will not hesitate to act, saying, &#8220;If there is any indication the offender knew or could observe she was pregnant then we would pursue the homicide charge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 15-year-old girl is grieving after a drive-by shooting took the life of her preborn baby boy just weeks before his due date. 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