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Pregnant 19-year-old shot in Brooklyn expected to survive after four-hour surgery
Medics rushed Tytianna Sparks, to hospital Sunday morning, after male suspect shot her twice in the head in a drive-by shooting
19-year-old sparks, who is five months pregnant is now in critical, but stable condition
“She’s OK. They took the fragments off the brain and they said [Tytianna] was going to be alright and the baby is doing good,” her mom Ruth Sparks said
Police believe she unknowingly stepped into line of fire at drive-by aimed at unknown male target
The intended target got away, as did the shooter in a silver car
Police are searchingfor both target and shooter
 Tytianna Sparks 4.pngLucky mom-to-be Tytianna Sparks and her baby are expected survive her being shot twice in the head, Sunday. She is now in critical but stable condition, post surgery

The pregnant New York teen shot in the head twice on a Brooklyn street, early Sunday is expected to survive, after a life-saving four-hours of surgery her family said Monday. Her unborn child is expected to survive as well.
“She’s OK. They took the fragments off the brain and they said she was going to be alright and the baby is doing good,” said her mother, Ruth Sparks
“The baby is fine, strong heartbeat. The baby is still with her.”
It has been touch-and-go since Sunday afternoon when her pregnant daughter, Tytianna Sparks, 19, was shot on Dean St. near Howard Ave. in Brownsville, Brooklyn by a man who is still being sought. Sparks, who witnesses said may have been headed to a corner store dressed in pink slippers, unintended stepped into the line of fire as a male was targeted by the shooter in the early morning drive-by, police said.
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Pregnant 19-year-old Tytianna Sparks hot in the head in Brooklyn

EMTs transported the expectant teen to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where she underwent cranial surgery said to have lasted more than four hours, her mom and her older sister Corinne Sparks, said Monday. She is now in critical but stable condition. Sparks is five months pregnant with her first child

Ruth Sparks 3The victim’s mother, Ruth Sparks [left], said her daughter and grandchild will survive the random shooting

Ruth S[arks, 59, said her daughter had been scheduled to find out the sex of the baby on Monday. Meanwhile her dad William Sparks is hoping for a quick arrest. “I just want my fellows over there to do their job,” he said. “We’re holding on as a family because we’re a strong family.”
A crucial video of the incident obtained by police from a nearby store shows Tytianna Sparks and a friend crossing Dean St. street as a man stands outside a nearby building.

police check out the crime scene where Tytianna Sparks was shotPolice investigate the crime scene. They recovered vital evidence including a 9-mm shell casing, a bullet and a bullet fragment 

A silver car with tinted windows pulled up. Sparks dropped to the ground from the 12:40 p.m. gunfire. The man suspected to be the target ducked onto his hands and feet, before taking off in a westerly direction on Dean Street as the silver car sped away on the opposite direction.
Police believe the man who ducked gunfire was the target, and authorities are analyzing the video from a store in a bid to identify the shooter.
He was described by witnesses as black, with a medium build, wearing a black hoodie, a white T-shirt and ripped blue jeans. Investigators at the scene found a 9-mm shell casing, a bullet and a bullet fragment.

 

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