9-Months-Pregnant Woman Is Fatally Shot While Picking Up Friends from Party in Case of Mistaken Identity

Kerisha Johnson.Photo: Facebook

Three teenagers are in custody this week after allegedly shooting and killing a pregnant woman, mistaking her for someone else.

It was not clear if any of the suspects have entered pleas or retained attorneys.

“It was just senseless. It was senseless,” childhood friend Deanna Williams told local Baton Rouge ABC affiliateWBRZ. “Just to know she lost her life [for] nothing. She was an innocent person.”

Williams affectionately called Johnson “the goofiest friend” and “a very sweet person.”

“She would give you the shirt off her back,” Williams said. “She was just that sweet.”

Johnson was reportedly picking people up from the party when she was shot, according to reports. She attempted to flee the scene, but was struck and killed, according to ABC.

The outlet reported that an arrest warrant says that “several individuals” pulled out guns to shoot at Johnson’s car as she attempted to drive away.

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The three teens arrested in connection with the shooting “all stated that they believed the white car was a vehicle from earlier in the night where [an] occupant had fired a round into the air as it drove past the teen party,” the warrant read, according to ABC.

Crissina Finister, who identified herself as a friend and classmate of Johnson’s,wrotein a local community Facebook group that Johnson had two other children who are now without a mother.

“She didn’t deserve this,” Finister wrote. “Kerisha was the nicest, sweetest person you could ever meet.”

source: people.com