Ava Woodstock was killed at the beginning of April in what her family describes as a domestic violence incident. Now, her younger brother is stepping up to raise her daughter.

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Alisha Carter was sitting at her kitchen table with her two-year-old granddaughter Chloe in her lap when the news started trickling in.

A shooting. Near Annie's restaurant in Glasgow. Her daughter-in-law's phone lit up with a Facebook post. Then Carter's own phone rang- it was Ava's father.

"He said, 'The one who did the shooting is Brandon,'" Carter recalled. "And I said, 'Well, where's Ava?' And he said, 'I don't know.' So I hung up and started calling Ava."

She never got through.

On April 6th, 25-year-old Brandon Lee Bond shot 22-year-old Ava Woodcock while she sat inside her car on Cleveland Avenue in Glasgow, according to the Glasgow Police Department. Ava was nine months pregnant- due May 19th. The baby she was carrying, Nevaeh Marie, was fully developed, weighing five pounds, two ounces, her family told me.

Bond ran from the scene armed and was later found in a wooded area, where he was taken into custody. He has been charged with murder- domestic violence, fetal homicide, and fleeing or evading police.

Ava did not survive.