A pregnant Arizona teenager was shot and killed by her boyfriend in California, according to a news release from San Diego police.
The girl, who has not yet been identified by police, is the third pregnant Arizona teenager to be shot in roughly two weeks.
San Diego police responded just after 1 a.m. May 30 to an address in the Bay Park neighborhood where they found the teen who was 32 weeks pregnant, unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head, police said. Paramedics took her to a local hospital where doctors performed an emergency cesarean section before she died, according to police.
The newborn remained in critical condition as of May 30, police said.
The teen and her family had traveled from Arizona and were staying at a short-term vacation rental, homicide detectives said.
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Her 19-year-old boyfriend, Trevon Williams, also from Arizona, traveled to San Diego separately and met the girl outside the rental, when he shot her before fleeing on foot to a nearby canyon, investigators said. Officers arrested Williams around 3 a.m. and recovered a semi-automatic handgun, according to police.
Williams has been booked into San Diego County Jail on suspicion of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, discharging a firearm and possession and transportation of a machine gun, according to court records. He was not eligible for release or bail.
The killing comes two weeks after 16-year-old Rylee Montgomery of Buckeye, was shot and killed by her boyfriend, Michael Isiah Sanchez, 18, on May 14. Montgomery, who was more than 13 weeks pregnant, died along with her unborn child. A second pregnant teenager present during that shooting also lost her baby, who died May 20 after being delivered following the shooting.
A Maricopa County grand jury indicted Sanchez on May 27 on three counts of first-degree premeditated murder and two counts of attempted murder. A co-defendant, Antonio Enrique Tequida Jr., 19, was also indicted on suspicion of hindering prosecution for driving Sanchez to and from the scene.
Sanchez had previously threatened and physically assaulted the girl after attempting to pressure her into terminating the pregnancy, according to Montgomery's family. Sanchez was on house arrest at the time of the shooting and was accused of tampering with his ankle monitor.
Under Arizona law, the death of an unborn child can be prosecuted as homicide. Since 2018, at least three defendants have been convicted in Arizona in cases involving the murder of a pregnant victim and an unborn child.
