Woman who was 8 months pregnant is shot and killed leaving gas station, Texas cops say

Jennifer Hernandez was eight months pregnant when she was fatally shot after leaving a Texas gas station, according to local authorities. Her unborn baby was also killed.

She and her boyfriend had left a Shell gas station in north Houston and made it to a nearby intersection before another car “sped up beside them and fired multiple gunshots into their vehicle,” Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said on Twitter.

Someone inside a white sedan with tinted windows and a paper license plate shot the 20-year-old woman and her 17-year-old boyfriend, Gonzalez tweeted. The other vehicle continued driving away.

Deputies were called to the shooting at about 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16.

The boyfriend, who was shot multiple times, said “they were not involved in any altercation” with the people in the other vehicle prior to the shooting, according to authorities.

The couple was expecting a baby boy, KTRK reported. Hernandez died one day before her family baby shower.

Loved ones say she would have been a great mother, according to a GoFundMe raising money for the family.

Anyone with additional information is asked to call the sheriff’s homicide unit at 713-274-9100 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-8477.

This story was originally published September 19, 2022 at 7:42 AM with the headline "Woman who was 8 months pregnant is shot and killed leaving gas station, Texas cops say."