I'm so sorry to hear that! It is a tough lesson to learn, and it's also part of the reality of how the animal world works. At the risk of offending someone, I have never liked raccoons. It annoys me when people call them "cute." To me they have always been trouble, maybe because they burrowed in our attic when I was a kid and would come out and knock the garbage cans over and would sometimes appear out of nowhere in our driveway, hissing at me. But of course raccoons are just doing what their nature tells them to, so I can't blame them either.
Hope your week gets better!