NORTH TEXAS — It’s been six years since a domestic violence shooting took the life of a pregnant mother and almost killed her unborn baby.
That baby has been able to make a full recovery and one local nonprofit is now working to make sure she still gets the childhood she deserves.
Putting together a “Frozen”-themed birthday party is something No More Violence Founder Patricia Allen hoped and prayed for six years ago.
“It brings me joy to see that she has a day full of love,” she said.
That’s when she met little Delashon Jefferson for the first time. She was fighting for her life in the NICU.
She’d been named after her mom, who died in a domestic violence shooting the same day she was born, four weeks premature.
Doctors had to perform an emergency C-section.
“Since day one, since I met her in the hospital, I just fell in love with her,” she said.
Allen and her nonprofit watched as the newborn made a full recovery and gained a new nickname, Miracle.