Pregnant Woman Shot During Struggle Over Gun Dies: Police

ROUND LAKE, IL -- A woman who miscarried after being accidentally shot by her husband in Round Lake has died. The woman was prounounced dead at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville on Saturday, authorities said. Meanwhile, her husband, Alvin L. Quinn, is being held on a $2 million bail at the Lake County Jail on charges of involuntary manslaughter of a child and reckless discharge of a firearm

Additional charges are likely, Sgt. Christopher Covelli, a spokesman for the Lake County Major Crimes Task Force, said. The woman's name is not yet being released. More information, including the shooting victims identity, will be released following an autopsy, according to the news release.

Quinn is accused of of involuntary firing a gun during an argument in Round Lake Tuesday afternoon. A bullet he allegedly fired went through the door of the home in the 600 block of West Nippersink Road in Round Lake and struck Quinn's pregnant wife in the head, the Daily Herald reports. The woman’s unborn child did not survive, and the woman was taken to Condell in critical condition.

She died just before noon on Dec. 15, according to police.

The shooting occurred after Quinn and his pregnant wife went to their former home in the 600 block of West Nippersink Road at about 2 p.m. on Tuesday to retrieve some items they left behind after moving to Zion, according to a news release from the Lake County Major Crime Task Force. The couple had rented the home, according to the Daily Herald.

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While at the home, Quinn, who brought a firearm along, got into a fight with a man at the residence, according to police.

"It was someone inside the residence, that he did have some past issues with," said Covelli, adding that police were not identifying the man who Quinn got into an argument with. He added that he did not know what, specifically the two were arguing about.

He got out his gun out and a struggle between the two men followed. During that struggle, the firearm discharged, striking Quinn's 25-year-old wife, who was pregnant, in the head, according to authorities.

The Lake County Coroner's Office conducted an autopsy on the fetus Wednesday morning, Coroner Howard Cooper said. The coroner's office has not yet released any additional information into that autopsy.

The shooting remains under investigation.

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