BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana officials expressed indignation over a road rage shooting that left a pregnant teenager in critical condition and caused her baby to be delivered early.

The 17-year-old girl was a passenger in the car and seven months pregnant Sunday when she was struck in the head by a bullet fired by a driver in another vehicle, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office said.

The teen, who was not immediately identified, was taken to a hospital and placed on life support, the sheriff’s office said in a press release on Monday. Her baby was delivered by emergency C-section and is “doing well” in a neonatal intensive care unit, the statement said.

“This is terrible. This poor infant is fighting for their life in the NICU while his or her mother is on life support. All beca

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