PLEASANT GROVE, Alabama - The mother of a pregnant Pleasant Grove woman fatally shot over the weekend said she didn't see the violence coming.

Angela Jackson spoke with her daughter, 29-year-old Antwaunete Jackson Samuels, just before the deadly shooting Saturday night. Samuels told her mom she was on the way to her house to drop off her 2-year-old daughter.

"I was supposed to babysit,'' Jackson told AL.com. "They were going to have a date night."

Jackson nor police know what happened to turn that date night into a murder-suicide. "I have no idea,'' Jackson said. "I'm just in total shock right now."

The shooting happened about 6:30 p.m. in the 300 block of Eighth Street. Samuels called 911 to tell police her husband, 32-year-old Kenyata Samuels, had shot her in the head.

Rescue workers arrived on the scene and found the woman outside. The woman's small child, a 2-year-old daughter, was with her wounded mother when police arrived on the scene. Police said she was standing next to her mother's body and crying.

Samuels had been shot in the head and the stomach. Authorities said doctors unsuccessfully performed an emergency Caesarian section to try to save the baby.

The toddler wasn't injured and was placed in the custody of the Department of Human Resources. Jackson said she is trying to get her granddaughter released into her care.

Police from at least three agencies surrounded the home and tried to make contact with the husband. After several hours, they went inside and found him dead in a back bedroom from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Police said they had been called out to the home once before, but that was more than a year ago.

Samuels attended West End High School but graduated from a private school, her mother said. After high school, she worked with children until she had one of her own. She decided then to be a stay-at-home mother. "She loved her baby,'' Jackson said.

Jackson said Samuels was her first-born of two daughters, and the two were extremely close. Samuels called her mom 15 to 20 times a day.

"That's what I looked forward to every day,'' Jackson said. "And now I don't have that anymore."

Jackson described her daughter as happy, and the sweetest person she knew. "She smiled all the time,'' she said. "I've been trying to think if she ever had a bad day. I don't think I ever saw her mad. I'm going to miss all that."