"A month before she was shot, Katrina Brownlee had a premonition. It came to her in a dream: the 22-year-old saw her former fiance, a law enforcement officer who had been abusing her for years, try to kill her, but she survived. She had experienced premonitions from a young age she later came to see them as guidance from God."
"Her elder daughter, then seven, was at a playdate. A few weeks earlier, Brownlee had left her fiance for good and she and her daughters had been living in a motel to hide from him. However, over the last few nights, Brownlee had spoken to him on the phone. He seemed to have accepted their relationship was over and agreed she could come and collect her belongings. I just wanted to retrieve the little I had, she says. I didn't have money."
Katrina Brownlee, five months pregnant and homeless with two young daughters, experienced recurring premonitions she interpreted as guidance from God. On a freezing January morning in 1993 she took a cab through snow to retrieve belongings from the Long Island home she had shared with her ex-fiancé, a law-enforcement officer who had abused her. He admitted her to the house; empty drawers alarmed her. In the living room he aimed a gun at her stomach and fired three times. She smelled gun smoke and felt her pregnancy bump go flat. The phone line had been cut and the windows were nailed shut.
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