Mother of slain DC pregnant woman speaks out following daughter's death, baby's unexpected arrival

May 2024 · 2 minute read

Eight months pregnant, 22-year-old Samaya Gill sat in a car with the unborn baby's father when gunmen ran up pumping bullets into the car with assault rifles.

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Gill was tragically killed and the man was wounded. Police said he drove the car about a mile to Minnesota Avenue and Dix Street, NE, a busy commercial area before stopping. The baby was hospitalized and listed as “critical.”

Friday, 7News spoke with the mother of Gill. The mother did not want to be identified. She said her daughter had worked as a model, and had an online clothing boutique but had shut everything down recently and was focused on the baby due in weeks.

She said after the shooting, doctors at the hospital delivered the baby by C-section.

“She’s beautiful I went to go see her last night and she’s just gorgeous,” said the now grandmother.

The child, though not actually struck by a bullet, the grandmother said, is still in critical condition. “A little better today,” the grandmother said the hospital informed her.

“I just really hope they catch whoever did that to my daughter,” she said. She added that if the baby survives, she will rear her granddaughter, though she needs help.

Samaya Gill was one of seven children and the oldest daughter.

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