Photo Courtesy of Brittany Hunt/ Facebook
A 23-year-old North Carolina woman died from a single gunshot wound as she drove a car with her 5-year-old twins and another adult inside on March 8.
According to News 15, Lumberton police disclosed Brittany Hunt was shot at 2:00 p.m. by an unknown suspect causing her to lose control of the vehicle and crash into a canal. Her children and a 20-year-old male passenger sustained non-life-threatening injuries, but one of the twins did need surgery.
The mother of three was pronounced dead after being taken to the University of North Carolina Health Southeastern Hospital, the news outlet reported.
Hunt’s mother, Felicia, described the incident as a bad dream.
“It hurts. Knowing that my child got took. She got took for no reason. And now, my grandkids, they all live without their mom. And I mean she was my oldest. She was my little fussing partner. And now, I don’t have nobody to fuss with no more. Because that was my, she really was my little fussing partner. All the time me and her be fussing all the time,” the distraught woman said.
Police have not identified a shooter, and circumstances around Hunt’s tragic death are still a mystery. WMBF News reported that an unidentified person fired numerous shots into the car. It’s unknown if the woman was the intended target.
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Hunt’s mom is pleading for justice for her daughter.
“People see what happened and nobody will not come forward. And I just wish somebody will come forward. So my daughter can get justice. So my daughter can end up resting in peace,” the grieving mother said.
My child deserves justice and I’m not going to sit not until she get it. If I got to do it every day. Until I get justice for my child, that’s what I’ll do. If I die trying, at least, I know I died trying to get justice for my daughter. And for her kids. And also for her sister and brothers,” she expressed.
Besides her five-year-old twins, Hunt also had a two-year-old son who is too young to understand the gravity of losing mom.
“Her kids, ah man, they were her world. They were her life. She would’ve gave her life up for those kids. So all three of her babies. And her baby, he is only two. He will never remember his mom. The only way he will know, is what we continue telling him as he grows,” the grandmother told ABC 15.