Police are counting the shooting death of a pregnant woman as a double homicide — the first two of 2013.

Amber Dawn Stokke, 22, was shot multiple times in her car outside her home at 10305 Sunnymeade Place about 11:30 p.m. Thursday, Deputy Chief Steve Jagosh said. She was six months pregnant.

“I never thought something like that would happen around here,” a neighbor said Friday. “It made me sick when I found out she was pregnant. It's sad because she never had a chance, and I feel for her family because it's two losses, not just one.”

A witness, who was a passenger in Stokke's car, told police they were backing out of the driveway when they were confronted by a black male. Stokke and the assailant exchanged words before he fired several shots into the car, the witness told police.