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Lesse Viro Barbara Mills was a sleep in her home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when her phone rang.

I was in my pajamas and I was a little out of it and I looked at the phone and her number showed up.

I said, why did this girl call?

The call was from her daughter, Brittany's cell phone.

I want to say it was 12-10 that I got the phone call.

Midnight.

Did you pick up?

Yeah.

And how did that conversation go?

It was one of the police officers who asked me.

Yeah.

Asked me my name and then he told me that I needed to come over to Brittany's apartment that there had been an accident.

He didn't tell me exactly what happened and I told him I was on my way.

Now according to police, Brittany, who was a single mom and eight months pregnant with her second child at the time,

opened her apartment door late at night and was murdered.

Now the police think she knew the killer and they say what they believe happened is that

she refused to let the person borrow her car and just a little while later was shot.

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