{"id":290823,"date":"2023-05-12T12:29:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T17:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=290823"},"modified":"2023-05-10T22:54:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T03:54:06","slug":"baby-girl-saved-mother-bullet-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/baby-girl-saved-mother-bullet-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Preborn baby girl saved her mother when a bullet nearly killed them both"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to People<\/a>, Harmonese Pleasant was due to give birth in a matter of weeks with her first baby \u2014 a girl \u2014 when she was shot outside of the New Orleans home she shares with her boyfriend, jazz trumpeter Kermit Ruffins.<\/p>\n

The bullet hit her and her baby, and miraculously, they both survived. Baby Blossom, however, was\u00a0delivered<\/a> prematurely and suffered significant injuries from the bullet.<\/p>\n

The couple had just celebrated their baby shower and were expecting Blossom to be born in three weeks. But on March 24, 2022, Pleasant was outside of their home talking on the phone when she felt a sudden, sharp pain in her abdomen.<\/p>\n

“I looked down, and all I saw was blood,” she said. All she could do was scream from the pain.<\/p>\n

Ruffins received a call from Pleasant while he was at his bar around the corner. He said, “Our house was just around the corner, but that was the longest ride of my life.” He found her lying on the ground with his daughter and son-in-law next to her. “I raised her shirt and saw a little bitty hole and said, ‘Did you fall?'”<\/p>\n

They didn’t know until they got to the hospital that she had been shot.<\/p>\n

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