Women face a much higher risk of homicide, especially from guns, during pregnancy

On April 9, 2020, after Shirley Scarborough called the prayer line like she did every morning, when she went to work she got a call from the police department in Richmond, Virginia. In a meeting, they said her youngest daughter, Francesca Harris-Scarborough, had been killed the night before. Police had found the 31-year-old’s car still idling.