Photo courtesy of Carilion Clinic

Jennifer Schilke (left) gave birth to Edward at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital on New Year's Day at 1:43 a.m. Edward's father, Mark Schilke, holds Roanoke's first baby of the new year.

One man killed. One child born.

At 1:43 a.m. Friday, Jennifer Schilke gave birth to a 7 pound, 8 ounce boy named Edward -- the first baby born in Roanoke in 2010.

At precisely the same moment Friday less than three miles away, Roanoke police were called to the scene of what they would later determine to be Roanoke's first homicide of 2010.

"I had heard about it," Schilke said. "But having a new baby, it hadn't necessarily been my focus."

Schilke, 34, husband Mark, 49, and Edward are all healthy and happy following the delivery at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.

The couple have two older children, Victoria, 8, and Lelia, 5.

The slain man was struck by gunfire on Gilmer Avenue Northwest after apparently interrupting a burglary, police said.

He has not been identified, and no one has been arrested in connection with his death.

Jennifer Schilke noted the uncanny timing of Friday's events, that the police response to Roanoke's first homicide of 2010 coincided to the minute with the city's first baby of the new year.

"That is pretty portentous," Schilke said. "The same minute. That's unbelievable."

Schilke said the troubles of pregnancy are outweighed by the anticipation of a new life and all its possibilities.

"The primary focus is just now I have this life, and I have to help him maximize his potential," Schilke said. "And here is this person who didn't just die, they had any future potential that they had extinguished."