A pregnant teenager was killed after two drivers boxed in the car she was driving and fired 21 gunshots from one of the cars.
Sereinat’e Henderson, 19, was driving along Prince St. near Malcolm X Elementary in South Berkeley with her mother beside her, and her sister, brother, and her young son in the backseat.
Henderson was taken to Highland Hospital in Oakland, where she died Thursday morning.
Her mother Salima Wyrick told abc7news: “They said there were 22 shots in her car,” still shaking from her family’s ordeal and the loss of her oldest child, Sereinat’e Henderson.
“I just need some answers. I just want to know who would want to take a precious, smart young lady from her family.”
Two months pregnant, Henderson was driving with Wyrick next to her in the passenger seat and Henderson’s baby son and teenage brother and sister in the back seat, when two cars suddenly boxed them in.
“It was a black car that pulled up behind us and a white car that pulled up on the side of us,” explained Wyrick, “and the white car pulled up on the side of us and just opened up fire”.
Wyrick’s 14-year-old son shielded baby Jah-hadi in the backseat, with his 15-year-old sister beside him.
No one but Sereinate was struck.
According to her family, she was shot once in the head and died a short time later at Oakland’s Highland Hospital.
“These people never bothered nobody,” said Todd Walker, a youth coach who is close with Sereinate family and also happens to work as a funeral director in the East Bay, where services for young people like her have been all too frequent.
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