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Auburn woman’s death highlights dangers of domestic violence during pregnancy
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Auburn woman’s death highlights dangers of domestic violence during pregnancy

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While Navneet Kaur was pregnant with her son, she hung up sonogram images on the walls of her and her husband’s Auburn home, shopped for cute baby clothes and talked about how happy she was to soon welcome her first child.  She was also unknowingly in a phase of life when women are at higher risk of intimate partner violence — homicide at the hands of a partner is among the leading causes of death of pregnant women nationally, according to health researchers. Kaur was 27 weeks pregnant when she was shot and killed, allegedly by her husband, Charanpreet Singh Walia, during an argument March 13. According to court documents, Walia fired a pistol at Kaur multiple times, then called 911 and admitted to shooting his wife, officers said. Walia has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter in the death of his wife and unborn child, according to King County Superior Court documents. He remains in jail in lieu of $5 million bail.…

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