A pregnant woman’s fetus has died after the mother was stabbed and seriously injured in a home invasion early Thursday morning in the Washington Highlands neighborhood, police said.

The attack happened about 2:30 a.m. on the 4200 block of Ninth Street SE, police said. The woman was about eight months pregnant, the Post reported this morning.

The fetus was a boy named Kuron Rashad Hunt, who was delivered upon the mother’s arrival at a nearby hospital and later pronounced dead, police said in a press release.

But although The Washington Times is stating that the death of the fetus is being investigated as a homicide, Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump told DCist this is not the case. The nature of Kuron’s death is still undetermined pending the results of an autopsy by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Crump said.

The District does not have a fetal homicide law on its books, according to records kept by the National Conference of State Legislatures. Thirty-eight states, including Maryland and Virginia, define the slaying of a fetus as a homicide, as does the federal government. In 2004, President George W. Bush signed into law the Unborn Victims of Violence Act.

Virginia passed a fetal homicide law in 2004, making any person who “unlawfully, willfully, deliberately, maliciously and with premeditation” kills a fetus guilty of a class 2 felony. Maryland’s law, enacted in 2005, states that “a person prosecuted for murder or manslaughter must have intended to cause the death of the viable fetus; intended to cause serious physical injury to the viable fetus; or wantonly or recklessly disregarded the likelihood that the person’s actions would cause the death of or serious physical injury to the viable fetus.”