A baby girl entered the world two months early at North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond on Sunday, and despite weighing only 3 pounds and 11 ounces and surviving an emergency C-section, she is, by all accounts, perfectly healthy.

But her mother, 17-year-old Katelynn Strate, likely won't live to meet her.

Strate was shot in the head in Ponchatoula about a half hour before her baby was born, the victim of what Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office officials described as a road rage attack. Strate was critically wounded and kept on life support to save her baby, longtime family friend Katie Cancienne said Monday night.

Strate will likely be taken off life support on Tuesday, Cancienne said.

"[Strate's] mother is devastated," Cancienne, 36, said. "She just lost her baby and now she's a grand

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