CJ, do you realize that in 1 week this thread will have been here for a year? I was reading the first few posts and they made me laugh.
The stories you were referring too. How sad.
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Baby draws first breath as shot mom drew her last
Doctors deliver child in woman's dying moments
Emily Bittner
The Arizona Republic
Aug. 23, 2004 04:55 PM
The woman, eight months pregnant, barely had a pulse.
Paramedics struggled to keep oxygen going to the baby.
Just nine minutes after they were called to the home where she had been shot in the head, her child was breathing and she was dead.
Her dying moments gave the baby, born a month premature, a real chance at life.
No one meant to kill the woman or endanger her child, police said.
"We don't think that she was the target," said Phoenix Detective Tony Morales, a spokesman for the department. "We think that something else happened there." But detectives don't know why shots were fired in the first place.
It was just before 10:30 p.m. Sunday. The woman, whose name hasn't been released, was standing in the front yard of a house in the 3800 block of West Osborn Road with her boyfriend and their two toddlers, ages 1 and 3.
Witnesses heard men yelling Spanish obscenities. A shorthaired Hispanic man in a gray or blue shirt was seen walking in the area, Morales said.
Several shots went off. The mother was shot in the head.
The incidents might be related, detectives believe.
Phoenix paramedic Brett Stevens, 35, and the other paramedics were on the scene in three minutes.
They kept oxygen moving through the woman's body and kept her blood pumping, but never got a strong pulse from her. Her heartbeat was about 30 or 40 times a minute, he said.
"She was in pretty bad shape, but we did what we could to keep her oxygenated and keep her circulation going," Stevens said.
Six minutes after paramedics arrived, the mother was in the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center.
"As soon as she was lifted off our gurney and on the ER gurney, within 10 seconds, the baby was out," Stevens said. Doctors sliced into the woman's abdomen to free the baby. "That's the only way you can do it for things like that."
"It's a horrible thing to have happen," Stevens said.
The baby is in critical condition at St. Joseph's Hospital, but is expected to survive, police said. The child's birth is the first time in memory that an infant survived such a shooting, said Phoenix Assistant Fire Chief Bob Khan.
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16 high schoolers arrested in heroin ring
Associated Press
Aug. 23, 2004 05:50 PM
At least 21 people have been arrested in what the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office calls a drug ring that catered to Scottsdale students.
Of the 21, the sheriff's office says two are drug dealers who entered the country illegally from Mexico.
Sixteen of the 19 others are high school students ranging in age from 16 to 18 years of age.
Sheriff's detectives say a comprehensive investigation revealed that
illegal aliens were making hundreds of Mexican heroin sales each month aimed mostly at teenagers attending Chaparral, Saguaro and Desert Mountain High Schools.
Interviews with a number of teens taken into custody indicates that middle school students as young as 13 may have been purchasing heroin.
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I hate to bring it up...but no way an illegal can drive a $50,000 car with that kind of business (selling heroin to rich Scottsdale kids). LOL
needed a bump, so i could tell you about the 4 stashhouses for illegals that were found last week, but instead i thought i would tell you about the story that ran on ch 12 last night about a family of illegals, that have been here for about 10 years! they admitted to getting welfare when they were younger, and talked about the good jobs that they now hold,1 works for a major airline manufacturer, others are in banking, and sales, they now claim to have gained legal status,and are working on becoming citizens, this kinda blows the theory that they will only do jobs that we [Americans] won`t do.this is from over 10 yrs. ago, just think what has happened in the last 10 years, how many jobs have they taken since then?Toi their credit they said that the borders shouldn`t be opened, because [in there own words] there are too many criminals and drug dealers coming up here from central america, now these people seamed like good people, although the elders still only speak spanish, but there is one small overlooked problem, they committed a FELONY when they invaded our country!
