A baby girl was born by emergency C-section in Louisiana after her teen mother was critically shot during a suspected road rage incident — and is unlikely to ever meet her newborn daughter.

The girl was born Sunday at a hospital in Hammond, just north of New Orleans, about half an hour after 17-year-old Katelynn Strate was shot in the head by the driver of a silver pickup truck.

Strate was placed on life support after the attack so her baby could be saved, and the girl was delivered two months early at 3 pounds, 11 ounces, but is in perfect health, Nola.com reported . 3

But doctors determined Strate is unlikely to recover, and her family is expected to take her off life support Tuesday.

“[Her] mother is devastated,” family friend Katie Cancienne told the Nola.com. “She just lo

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