Pregnant Texas mom killed, baby clinging to life after crash with officer
An expectant mother was killed Saturday morning and her premature baby was left clinging to life after the car they were in was struck by an off-duty Texas police officer.
The wreck happened just after 2:30 a.m. Saturday on a Dallas highway, according to the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office.
The Chevy Malibu carrying the 7-month pregnant Aquazia Kennedy, 19, and two others stalled out in the center lane moments before it was smashed into by a Jeep Wrangler.
Kennedy was rushed to the hospital in critical condition but died before doctors delivered her first child, a little girl she had already named Sky’Lynn.
“Baby Sky made it but is in critical condition and is holding on to dear life but Aquazia took her last breath shortly before her daughter was born,” her grieving family wrote in a fundraiser.
Kennedy — lovingly called “Nuskii” by her family — had celebrated her 19th birthday on New Year’s Day and her gender reveal party just months earlier.
The teenager wrote on Facebook at the time she “couldn’t be more content with life” over the excitement of being a first-time mother.
According to her family, it was Kennedy’s “mission to make others laugh and smile.”
“I remember when she was born and I signed her birth certificate. Now, I’m in and out my head about the fact that today I’m really about to receive a death certificate with my daughter name on it,” her father Quincy Kennedy wrote on Facebook, calling for “justice” in his daughter’s death.
He did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
The crash is still under investigation, and it is not yet clear whether any criminality is suspected.
Two others who had been riding in the Malibu, who were not identified, are also in critical condition, police said.
The off-duty officer was evaluated at the hospital and then released.
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