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Amite man accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend


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AMITE, La. (WGNO) — An Amite man has been arrested after he allegedly shot and killed his pregnant girlfriend on Friday.

Officers with the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Workplace say, simply earlier than 7 a.m. on Oct. 25, deputies have been known as to a house on Bankston Street after a lady, later recognized as Aieron Thomas, was discovered unresponsive.

Thomas was 13 weeks pregnant. She was shot as soon as within the chest and didn’t survive.

22-year-old Demarcus Womack, Thomas’s live-in boyfriend, was quickly recognized as a suspect within the investigation.

Demarcus Womack (Courtesy: Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Workplace)

After discovering Womack, he allegedly confessed to each the taking pictures and making an attempt to cover proof of the crime. He was then arrested and was booked on one depend every of second-degree homicide, and second-degree homicide (feticide.)

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