DETROIT – Workers at the post office in Detroit are mourning the loss of their pregnant co-worker Thursday morning who was shot and killed on Detroit’s west side.

Bionka Lyons, 21, of Detroit, was killed Wednesday at about 11 p.m. outside her parent’s home on Crocuslawn Street. Her unborn child did not survive.

“It’s all everyone has been talking about today because she was just so young,” USPS employee Sherrie Coleman said. “I’m a mother and it makes me think of my own and I just can’t imagine what the family is going through.”

Lyons was shot five times.

Her parents heard the shots and found her in the street near her vehicle. She was rushed to the hospital. The baby died soon after they arrived at the emergency room. Lyons died at about 2 a.m. She was seven months pregnant.

Lyons was expecting to give birth to a boy – her first child. Read more