On April 9, 2020, after Shirley Scarborough made her daily call to a prayer line, she went to work and got another call: from the police department in Richmond, Virginia. Her youngest daughter, Francesca Harris-Scarborough, had been killed the night before.
Police had found the 31-year-old’s car still idling. Scarborough’s daughter, who was three months pregnant, had been shot twice in the heart.
“I wasn’t ready for it. I lost control of everything,” Scarborough said. “Everything went blank.”
Francesca was part of a terrible trend in the United States: Homicide is the No. 1 way pregnant women die, research has showed, but a new study finds that they are even more vulnerable than other women of childbearing age when there’s a gun involved.
The study, published Monday in the journal JAMA Network Open, looked at mor
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