The cold-blooded murder of the nine months’ pregnant woman, who was said by her parents to have witnessed a shooting as she stood at a window of their house in Helenvale, highlighted the tenuousness of life in the gang-plagued area. 

The shocked young mother-to-be backed away when the shots were fired but the alleged shooters, realising that they had been seen, went after her inside the house and callously pulled the trigger again, this time with the gun aimed directly at her...