Three men have been arrested and are facing two murder charges each in the 2023 murder of a pregnant woman in Ohio and her preborn baby.
Key Takeaways:
- Three men have been charged with two counts of murder each in the 2023 death of an Ohio woman and her preborn child.
- One of the men was dating the woman; he had allegedly been pressuring her to abort the baby.
- She was scheduled to give birth the same day she was murdered.
The Details:
Robert Ervin, 20, Kayvon Warren, 30, and Lamar Morris Suggs, 22, have each been charged with two counts of murder in the death of India Kinamore, 26, and her preborn child.
In March 2023, Kinamore was found shot to death in Colerain Township, Ohio. She was reportedly in the “late stages” of pregnancy, and her preborn child did not survive the murder.
India Kinamore (Screenshot – WLWT)
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney David Hickenlooper said Friday that the three arrests were the result of a long, complex investigation. He stated that Warren was in a relationship with Kinamore and wanted her to get an abortion, which she refused to do.
Kinamore was reportedly scheduled to be induced and give birth to her child on the day of the murder.
“It would seem this defendant and his co-defendants were conspiring to come up with this plan to kill Miss Kinamore and her unborn child,” Hickenlooper explained, noting that cell phone records tied Ervin and Suggs to the crime.
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The allegation was supported by Kinamore’s mother, Terri. “They were in a relationship. He killed his own son or plotted to kill his own son,” she said. Terri also told the court that Kinamore’s six-year-old son was in the home at the time of the murder. It was the little boy who called his grandmother and told her, “My mommy has been shot.”
Warren’s attorney, Clyde Bennett, refuted the claims that he wanted to terminate the pregnancy, instead saying his client wanted to keep the child.
The Bottom Line:
Homicide remains one of the leading causes of death for pregnant women, exceeding all other causes of maternal mortality. In many cases, as is alleged in this instance, women are killed because they refuse to abort their preborn children. Researchers have even called gun violence “a health emergency for pregnant women.”
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