Texas nurse kills woman for her baby

A Texas nurse has been charged with murder for shooting a young mother and kidnapping her three-day-old baby outside a paediatrician’s office, officials said on Wednesday. Verna McClain, 30, had recently suffered a miscarriage but did not tell her fiancé about it, police said. She allegedly kidnapped the baby in hopes of passing him off as her own. “The investigation so far would indicate this was a random choice on her part,” Lieutenant Dan Norris of the Montgomery County sheriff department told reporters. Police managed to find the unharmed baby after several desperate hours of searching by tracing the suspect’s Lexus to a nearby apartment complex. McClain didn’t have the baby when she returned home, but told police that little Keegan Schuchardt could be found at her sister’s house. McClain was parked in front of a paediatrician’s office in Spring, Texas, when Kala Golden, 28, emerged with her son after a checkup on Tuesday afternoon. She allegedly shot Golden multiple times and grabbed the baby, but Golden kept fighting even as blood was pouring out of her wounds. Golden tried to grab her son out the car and was knocked to the ground as it sped away. Witnesses said she was screaming “my baby” as she struggled to get Keegan back. McClain – a registered nurse who works for a staffing agency – was held without bond and was “remorseful” about what happened, police said. Her two children are being cared for by family.