BELLE GLADE, Fla., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A woman who went into a coma after being shot in the head last weekend has given birth to a son in Belle Glade, Fla.
Ronkeysha Thomas, 19, was eight months pregnant when she was shot in the head Saturday night while standing in a crowd of about a dozen people near Ninth Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post reported Monday.
Doctors at St. Mary's Medical Center performed an emergency Caesarean section Sunday morning successfully delivered the child. Thomas' grandmother, Diana Thomas, said her newborn great-grandson weighed 4 pounds, 9 ounces at the time of his birth. Family members said they are focusing their hopes on Ronkeysha Thomas' recovery.
"It's in God's hands, all I can say," Melvin Thomas, Ronkeysha Thomas' grandfather, told the Post. "It's just in God's hands."
Local sheriff's officials are searching for suspects in the shooting.
