Pregnant woman killed in LA brawl - Yahoo! News
A pregnant woman who had just returned from her grandfather's funeral was killed when another woman deliberately rammed her car into a crowd during a street brawl involving about three dozen young women, authorities said.
Shontae Treniece Blanche, 22, was killed, as was her fetus, police said. Two other women were injured in the fight, said Officer Matthew Gares. The confrontation stemmed from a love triangle between the car driver and another woman, he said.
The driver, Unique Bishop, 21, fled after Monday afternoon's fight but later turned herself in, police said. She was being held in lieu of $1 million bail. Police planned to recommend that Bishop be charged with murder and attempted murder, Gares said.
"It was totally an intentional act to kill the woman. It was the driver's way of settling the dispute. It was a horrific act," Deputy Police Chief Charlie Beck said Tuesday.
It was not known whether Bishop had an attorney.
One of the injured women was in critical condition, but doctors were able to save her badly injured leg, Gares said.
Blanche was four to five months pregnant and had learned only last week that she was expecting a girl, said her stepmother, Diane Williams.
"They called me and told me my baby was laying in the streets," said Williams, who rushed from her home in Las Vegas after authorities told her of her stepdaughter's death.
Blanche had returned from New Orleans about three hours before she was killed, Williams said. She had gone there to attend her grandfather's funeral.
"She was a wonderful, wonderful person, a wonderful child," Williams said.
Authorities say Bishop and a woman fighting over the same man met at the gas station in South Los Angeles to settle the dispute.
"The girls said they were supposed to show up and talk about it; it wasn't supposed to escalate into this physical, violent situation," Gares said.
At one point, as many as 30 women were involved in the fight, with some possibly trying to break it up, police said.
After the fighting, four women, including Blanche and the other woman involved in the dispute with Bishop, began walking away. Bishop became upset and drove a convertible into the group of four, Gares said.
One of the victims was pinned against another car, and it appears Blanche was dragged by the vehicle, police said. It was unclear whether the other woman involved in the supposed love triangle was one of the injured.
Pregnant woman killed in Los Angeles brawl
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