Doctors Save Baby After Pregnant Woman Shot

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Philadelphia police say a woman who was nine months pregnant is in critical condition after she was shot, but doctors managed to save her baby. The shooting happened Wednesday in the city’s Kensington section. Family members told police the 39-year-old was standing in the front doorway when a gunshot rang out. Chief Inspector Scott Small says the woman suffered a single gunshot wound to her abdomen. She was taken to Temple University Hospital, where an emergency caesarean section was performed. Small says the baby survived. Small says the woman may have been hit by a stray bullet.