WILLIS, Texas (AP) _ A Houston-area woman who was fatally shot trying to save her newborn son from being abducted is being fondly remembered as a mother who lived for her children and fought for one of them until death.
Family and friends gathered at 28-year-old Kala Golden-Schuchardt’s funeral service Tuesday afternoon at a church in Willis, about 50 miles north of Houston.
She was buried near her home in the Houston suburb of Spring.
The 30-year-old nurse accused of fatally shooting Golden-Schuchardt on April 17 outside a pediatric center in Spring and abducting the baby is being held without bond on a capital murder charge.
The baby was found hours later, unharmed and with the suspect’s sister.
Investigators believe Verna McClain was desperate for a baby after suffering a miscarriage.
The fiance of the woman charged with fatally shooting a Houston-area mother and snatching her 3-day-old child says he thought she had given birth in Galveston weeks earlier and that the baby was being treated in a hospital.
Kevin Carter, 26, says he wasn’t aware Verna McClain had suffered a miscarriage and didn’t know about it until he saw the news reports of McClain’s arrest for gunning down Kala Golden, of Spring.
Authorities believe McClain was so desperate for a child that last week she abducted Golden’s infant after shooting the mother.
Carter told Houston television station KPRC on Tuesday he and McClain had planned a May 5 wedding that would have occurred regardless of her miscarriage.
He also said he hasn’t spoken with McClain since her arrest.
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