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Pregnant OKC victims shot to death, officials say

Brooke Phillips

By JOHNNY JOHNSON NewsOK.com
Published: 11/14/2009 9:29 AM
Last Modified: 11/14/2009 2:29 PM

Two of the four victims left in a burning southwest Oklahoma City house Monday were pregnant women who had been shot to death, according to the state medical examiner’s office.

Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater said a state law change now allows a first-degree murder charge to be filed over the loss of an unborn child "anywhere from conception to birth.”

"We no longer have to prove, for the purposes of homicide, that the unborn child would be viable outside of the womb,” the prosecutor said.

Dead are Millie Barrera, 22, and Brooke Phillips, 21, the medical examiner’s office said Friday. Barrera died from multiple gunshot wounds, and Phillips died from a single shot.

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By JOHNNY JOHNSON NewsOK.com

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Reader comments for this story have been moved to the most updated version of the story, now under the headline "2 were shot to death before fire," which was published on 11/15/2009. So far, 9 comments have been made.