Ex-boyfriend Used Flowers To Lure Pregnant Teenage Girlfriend Outside Before Fatally Shooting Her Just Weeks Before Due Date, Police Say

A pregnant teen was allegedly killed by her ex-boyfriend, who lured her retired of a San Diego rental pinch flowers and shot her successful nan caput just weeks earlier her owed date, constabulary said.

Jariah Edwards, 17, of Arizona, was visiting San Diego pinch her family erstwhile her boyfriend, Trevon Williams, 21, showed up astir 1 a.m. Saturday and coaxed her extracurricular pinch flowers, a friend of nan unfortunate told AZFamily.

Williams changeable Edwards successful nan caput and fled connected ft to a adjacent canyon, wherever he was recovered soon after, according to police.

Police received aggregate 911 calls reporting nan shooting, and recovered nan teen — who was 8 months pregnant — unresponsive and pinch a gunshot coiled to nan head.

Edwards was rushed to nan hospital, wherever her babe was delivered during an emergency C-section. The mom-to-be did not past her injuries, and her family told 12 News that she did not get nan chance to clasp aliases sanction her girl earlier she died.

“Her bequest is that her girl is going to beryllium everything she wanted to beryllium and truthful overmuch more, and she should beryllium proud of that,” Edwards’ aunt told 12 News.

Her child, a babe girl, remains successful captious condition, authorities said.

“Jariah Edwards was a bright, loving young female who was conscionable 17 years aged and preparing to invited her first child, a babe girl. She was surrounded by family and friends who cherished her deeply,” a GoFundMe said.

The fundraiser, which will beryllium utilized for Edwards’ ceremonial and her baby’s aesculapian expenses, presently sits astatine complete $4,500 towards a extremity of $8,000, arsenic of Monday afternoon.

“Tragically, while connected a family trip, Jariah was tracked down by her ex-boyfriend and mislaid her life to senseless violence. Her passing has near a spread int he hearts of her mother, sister, family, friends, and astir importantly, her newborn babe girl, who is now fighting for her life,” nan fundraiser continues.

Following nan shooting, Williams was recovered hiding successful a adjacent canyon and arrested without incident. Police recovered a semiautomatic handgun astatine nan clip of his arrest.

Authorities person not shared a imaginable motive, and opportunity they are still investigating nan shooting.

Williams was booked into nan San Diego County jailhouse connected suspicion of murder.