PITTSBURG - A woman who died in a shooting on state Highway 4 in Pittsburg Wednesday was a mother of four who will be remembered for the positive effect she had on people, an official with an organization she was involved with said today.

Shanique Marie, 25, of San Francisco, was one of two people shot in a vehicle on the highway's westbound side near Railroad Avenue in an incident reported to the California Highway Patrol at 10:47 a.m. Wednesday. Marie and a male occupant of the vehicle suffered gunshot wounds and injuries from a crash when their vehicle overturned in a dirt embankment.

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Woman Killed In Pittsburg Highway Shooting Is Identified She later died of a single gunshot wound to the torso, according to the Contra Costa County coroner's office. The male victim is expected to survive. Marie's death came as a shock to the San Francisco Conservation Corps, a nonprofit job readiness and education program she joined.

She graduated with a high school diploma from the organization last year while pregnant with three young children. Antoine Lagarde, a spokesman with the organization, wrote in an email today that he has been receiving texts and phone calls nonstop from the program's attendees who were "shaken up" by the news.

"She will be greatly missed by all who knew her, (as) she touched many lives in a positive way," Lagarde wrote. "It's a tragedy ... she will not be able to inspire more of us in the future."

Lagarde described Marie as being a person open to discussing her life's struggles, which he said included facing poverty as well as losing her boyfriend and father of her kids in a fatal shooting. "Yet she would always ask how people were doing and look out for them - even when she was going through depression and turmoil," Lagarde said.

Lagarde said the people who knew Marie believed that she was not the intended target of the shooting. "Unfortunately, she was hanging with the wrong crowd," he added.