Katherine Lynn Bryan grew up in New Port Richey, the youngest in a tight-knit group of four siblings. She recently got married and became Katherine Hoover. At the age of 25, she was five months pregnant. The new baby was going to be her second son.
Instead, a tragic gun accident at a friend's house left the young mother and her unborn child dead Sunday.
A stay-at-home mother who had recently moved from New Port Richey to Inverness, Katherine Hoover died in a hospital emergency room early Sunday.
She was shot in the head Saturday evening while being shown a gun at a friend's house in Brooksville, authorities said.
She and her husband, Carson Hoover, had gone to visit friends at 20079 Suncrest Drive in northwest Brooksville, just outside the city limits.
Sometime around 6:45 p.m. inside the house, William DeHayes was showing the Hoovers some of his guns, including a .22-caliber revolver. The gun accidentally fired and shot Katherine Hoover in the head, according to the Hernando County Sheriff's Office.
Hoover was rushed to Bayfront Health Brooksville and then airlifted to Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point.
Her unborn child could not be saved. Shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday, physicians removed the 5-month-old fetus from his dying mother in a last-ditch attempt to save him. But he was pronounced dead just after 8:30 p.m.
Something that has always confused me is the idea that the rabid Right to Life movement, is invariably made up of the same people who also support the death penalty and the 2nd Amendment.
One would think that if you were so focused on every fetus's right to be born, you would also be against having a lot of guns around which might take their life as a child or as an adult. Or does "pro-life" concerns end once the child successfully navigates the birth canal?
Guns do NOT protect life, guns take life.
And in this case they took two innocent lives.
Does that make anybody feel safer?
