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BOSTON — A gunman abducted a couple as they left Brigham & Women’s Hospital after attending birthing classes and took them to a housing project, where he robbed them before fatally shooting the woman and critically wounding her husband, police said today.
The husband managed to guide police to his car with the use of a cellular telephone before passing out, allowing doctors to deliver his wife’s 7-month-old fetus by Cesarean section Monday night, officials said.
The woman, Carol Stewart, 33, who was wounded in the head, survived through the birth but died about 2:50 a.m. today, police said.
The baby, a boy, was being kept in an incubator and said to be in critical condition.
Charles Stewart, 30, was taken to Boston City Hospital with a bullet wound in his back. He was in critical condition today.
Police said the gunman apparently thought that Stewart was a police officer because of the cellular phone. “Just before he shot them, he said something like, ‘You’re five-oh.’ That’s street jargon for police,” one officer said.
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