{"id":36291,"date":"2025-08-28T15:53:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=36291"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:53:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:53:25","slug":"pregnant-girl-17-left-brain-dead-after-road-rage-attack-is-kept-on-life-support-to-deliver-her-baby-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=36291","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant girl, 17, left brain dead after road rage attack is kept on life support to deliver her baby &#8211; Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p>A 17-year-old girl was left <strong>brain dead after a road rage shooting in Louisiana<\/strong> but remained on life support long enough for doctors to deliver her baby.<\/p>\n<p>Katelynn Strate was riding with her boyfriend when another driver opened fire, striking her in the head. The bullet lodged in her skull, leaving her critically injured. Doctors performed an emergency C-section, delivering her baby girl at seven months. The infant weighed just over three pounds but is otherwise healthy.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><\/figure>\n<p>Family friend Katie Cancienne shared the heartbreak: <strong>\u201cHer mother just lost her baby, and now she\u2019s a grandmother.\u201d<\/strong> Strate\u2019s loved ones confirmed she would not recover, and her organs will be donated.<\/p>\n<p>Police charged 54-year-old Barry West with attempted second-degree murder. He claimed he thought the other car had fired first, but officers found no gun.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 1em auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/dlyviralnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/101572769-15037085-image-m-145_1756246824133.avif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Katelynn\u2019s family had recently celebrated a gender reveal party for her daughter. As Cancienne said, <strong>\u201cThe world\u2019s not going to be the same kind of place without her.\u201d<\/strong> This tragedy leaves one haunting question: how many more lives will senseless violence destroy?<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1599122\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old girl was left brain dead after a road rage shooting in Louisiana but remained on life support long enough for doctors to deliver her baby. Katelynn Strate was &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36293,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36291\/revisions\/36293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}