A man helped rescue a pregnant woman from a vehicle in a pond off Interstate 95 in Florida. Hours later, she gave birth to the child.Logan Hayes had been driving to work near Stuart before 8 a.m. Friday before the Gatlin exit near the weigh station.”As I was driving by, I saw this car in the pond,” he told WPBF.The vehicle was sinking. He jumped into the cold waters, swam out to the vehicle, and pulled the woman to shore.Hayes later learned the woman was pregnant. Martin County Fire Rescue crews arrived minutes later. The patient was taken to HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital in Fort Pierce with serious injuries.MCFD divers entered the water to confirm no other occupants were inside and to assist with scene recovery.”Great teamwork by all responding units and the citizens on scene,” the agency posted on Facebook.SLCScanner’s Dan Toback, who posts information on the Treasure Coast, called it “an incredible story.”
A man helped rescue a pregnant woman from a vehicle in a pond off Interstate 95 in Florida. Hours later, she gave birth to the child.
Logan Hayes had been driving to work near Stuart before 8 a.m. Friday before the Gatlin exit near the weigh station.
“As I was driving by, I saw this car in the pond,” he told WPBF.
The vehicle was sinking. He jumped into the cold waters, swam out to the vehicle, and pulled the woman to shore.
Hayes later learned the woman was pregnant.
Martin County Fire Rescue crews arrived minutes later.
The patient was taken to HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital in Fort Pierce with serious injuries.
MCFD divers entered the water to confirm no other occupants were inside and to assist with scene recovery.
“Great teamwork by all responding units and the citizens on scene,” the agency posted on Facebook.
SLCScanner’s Dan Toback, who posts information on the Treasure Coast, called it “an incredible story.”
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (WLS) — A detention hearing for a man accused in the stabbing death of a pregnant woman in Downers Grove has been postponed until Thursday.
Court documents revealed the incident appeared to stem from a car sale, and the victim was stabbed 70 times.
Loved ones gathered for a vigil Wednesday evening as they continue to mourn Eliza Morales. She and her family were months away from welcoming a new child, their second after their two-year-old daughter. Now the family is left crippled with heartbreak, not knowing what those two lives could have become.
Revuckas’ detention hearing has been postponed until Thursday morning because both the state and defense need more time to process the sheer volume of evidence in the case.
Revuckas faces first-degree murder, armed robbery, arson, animal cruelty and other charges.
Investigators said 30-year-old Eliza Morales resisted the suspect at her doorstep, as he tried to rob that young mother, who was set to deliver her second child, a baby girl, in March.
Gabriel Morales had listed a pickup truck on Facebook Marketplace, and Revuckas had intended to purchase it, court documents showed. Revuckas was upset about the condition of the truck and “decided to take out his frustration on Eliza,” the documents say.
Court documents allege, during a struggle, Morales suffered 70 stab wounds.
Revuckas is also accused of stabbing the Morales family’s dog.
“You get angry and then you get sad and then you get angry again and it’s such a rollercoaster,” Morales’ mother-in-law Angelica Silva said.
A candlelight vigil was held Wednesday night, after court documents revealed the disturbing details about Morales’ death that took place Monday at her Downers Grove home.
“It was a horrific, violent crime committed,” Silva said. “She fought for her life.” (:07)
“She’s a sweetheart and she didn’t deserve this and it’s just too painful and honestly you just don’t expect this to happen,” Morales’ cousin Carolina Castro said.
During the fight, Revuckas told detectives Eliza “mentioned she was pregnant,” according to court documents. She was stabbed 70 times Investigators say after the stabbing, the suspect allegedly started a fire inside the home.
“Pure evil. I-I, none of us get it-she did not deserve this,” Silva said. “No one deserves anything like this.”
While the suspect’s motive is not clear to Morales’ family, what has been clear is the impact her loss will have on the family, including her surviving two-year-old daughter.
“Were just going to raise her daughter the way she was,” Silva said.
Prosecutors intend to ask a judge to deny Revuckas pre-trial release during the postponed dention hearing on Thursday, saying in court documents he poses a real and present threat to community safety. His detention hearing was postponed from Wednesday due to the amount of evidence attorneys have to go through.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to support the victim’s family.
A new review of studies has found that taking Tylenol during pregnancy doesn’t increase the risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disabilities — adding to the growing body of research refuting claims made by the Trump administration.President Donald Trump last year promoted unproven ties between the painkiller and autism, telling pregnant women: “Don’t take Tylenol.”Related video above — Stop Overpaying for Meds: Smart Ways to Cut Prescription CostsThe latest research review, published Friday in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women’s Health, looked at 43 studies and concluded that the most rigorous ones, such as those that compare siblings, provide strong evidence that taking the drug commonly known as paracetamol outside of the U.S. does not cause autism, ADHD or intellectual disabilities.It’s “safe to use in pregnancy,” said lead author Dr. Asma Khalil. “It remains … the first line of treatment that we would recommend if the pregnant woman has pain or fever.”While some studies have raised the possibility of a link between autism risk and using Tylenol, also known as acetaminophen, during pregnancy, more haven’t found a connection.A review published last year in BMJ said existing evidence doesn’t clearly link the drug’s use during pregnancy with autism or ADHD in offspring. A study published the previous year in the Journal of the American Medical Association also found it wasn’t associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability in an analysis looking at siblings.But the White House has focused on research supporting a link.One of the papers cited on its web page, published in BMC Environmental Health last year, analyzed results from 46 previous studies and found that they supported evidence of an association between Tylenol exposure during pregnancy and increased incidence of neurodevelopmental disorders. Researchers noted that the drug is still important for treating pain and fever during pregnancy, but said steps should be taken to limit its use.Some health experts have raised concerns about that review and the way Trump administration officials portrayed it, pointing out that only a fraction of the studies focus on autism and that an association doesn’t prove cause and effect. Khalil, a fetal medicine specialist at St. George’s Hospital, London, said that review included some studies that were small and some that were prone to bias.The senior author of that review was Dr. Andrea Baccarelli, dean of the faculty at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who noted in the paper that he served as an expert witness for plaintiffs in a case involving potential links between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and neurodevelopmental disorders. Baccarelli did not respond to an email seeking comment on his study.Overall, Khalil said, research cited in the public debate showing small associations between acetaminophen and autism is vulnerable to confounding factors. For example, a pregnant woman might take Tylenol for fevers, and fever during pregnancy may raise the risk for autism. Research can also be affected by “recall bias,” such as when the mother of an autistic child doesn’t accurately remember how much of the drug she used during pregnancy after the fact, Khalil said.When researchers prioritize the most rigorous study approaches – such as comparing siblings to account for the influence of things like genetics – “the association is not seen,” she said.Genetics are the biggest risk factor for autism, experts say. Other risks include the age of the child’s father, preterm birth and whether the mother had health problems during pregnancy.In a commentary published with the latest review, a group of researchers who weren’t involved — from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Children’s Hospital Colorado and elsewhere —cautioned that discouraging the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy could lead to inadequate pain or fever control. And that may hurt the baby as well as the mother. Untreated fever and infection in a pregnant woman poses “well-established risks to fetal survival and neurodevelopment,” they said.The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
A new review of studies has found that taking Tylenol during pregnancy doesn’t increase the risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disabilities — adding to the growing body of research refuting claims made by the Trump administration.
President Donald Trump last year promoted unproven ties between the painkiller and autism, telling pregnant women: “Don’t take Tylenol.”
Related video above — Stop Overpaying for Meds: Smart Ways to Cut Prescription Costs
The latest research review, published Friday in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women’s Health, looked at 43 studies and concluded that the most rigorous ones, such as those that compare siblings, provide strong evidence that taking the drug commonly known as paracetamol outside of the U.S. does not cause autism, ADHD or intellectual disabilities.
It’s “safe to use in pregnancy,” said lead author Dr. Asma Khalil. “It remains … the first line of treatment that we would recommend if the pregnant woman has pain or fever.”
While some studies have raised the possibility of a link between autism risk and using Tylenol, also known as acetaminophen, during pregnancy, more haven’t found a connection.
A review published last year in BMJ said existing evidence doesn’t clearly link the drug’s use during pregnancy with autism or ADHD in offspring. A study published the previous year in the Journal of the American Medical Association also found it wasn’t associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability in an analysis looking at siblings.
But the White House has focused on research supporting a link.
One of the papers cited on its web page, published in BMC Environmental Health last year, analyzed results from 46 previous studies and found that they supported evidence of an association between Tylenol exposure during pregnancy and increased incidence of neurodevelopmental disorders. Researchers noted that the drug is still important for treating pain and fever during pregnancy, but said steps should be taken to limit its use.
Some health experts have raised concerns about that review and the way Trump administration officials portrayed it, pointing out that only a fraction of the studies focus on autism and that an association doesn’t prove cause and effect. Khalil, a fetal medicine specialist at St. George’s Hospital, London, said that review included some studies that were small and some that were prone to bias.
The senior author of that review was Dr. Andrea Baccarelli, dean of the faculty at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who noted in the paper that he served as an expert witness for plaintiffs in a case involving potential links between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and neurodevelopmental disorders. Baccarelli did not respond to an email seeking comment on his study.
Overall, Khalil said, research cited in the public debate showing small associations between acetaminophen and autism is vulnerable to confounding factors. For example, a pregnant woman might take Tylenol for fevers, and fever during pregnancy may raise the risk for autism. Research can also be affected by “recall bias,” such as when the mother of an autistic child doesn’t accurately remember how much of the drug she used during pregnancy after the fact, Khalil said.
When researchers prioritize the most rigorous study approaches – such as comparing siblings to account for the influence of things like genetics – “the association is not seen,” she said.
Genetics are the biggest risk factor for autism, experts say. Other risks include the age of the child’s father, preterm birth and whether the mother had health problems during pregnancy.
In a commentary published with the latest review, a group of researchers who weren’t involved — from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Children’s Hospital Colorado and elsewhere —cautioned that discouraging the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy could lead to inadequate pain or fever control. And that may hurt the baby as well as the mother. Untreated fever and infection in a pregnant woman poses “well-established risks to fetal survival and neurodevelopment,” they said.
The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced sweeping changes to the pediatric vaccine schedule on Monday, sharply cutting the number of diseases U.S. children will be regularly immunized against.
Under the new guidelines, the U.S. still recommends that all children be vaccinated against measles, mumps, rubella, polio, pertussis, tetanus, diphtheria, Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), pneumococcal disease, human papillomavirus (HPV) and varicella, better known as chickenpox.
Vaccines for all other diseases will now fall into one of two categories: recommended only for specific high-risk groups, or available through “shared clinical decision-making” — the administration’s preferred term for “optional.”
These include immunizations for hepatitis A and B, rotavirus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), bacterial meningitis, influenza and COVID-19. All these shots were previously recommended for all children.
Insurance companies will still be required to fully cover all childhood vaccines on the CDC schedule, including those now designated as optional, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine critic, said in a statement that the new schedule “protects children, respects families, and rebuilds trust in public health.”
But pediatricians and public health officials widely condemned the shift, saying that it would lead to more uncertainty for patients and a resurgence of diseases that had been under control.
“The decision to weaken the childhood immunization schedule is misguided and dangerous,” said Dr. René Bravo, a pediatrician and president of the California Medical Assn. “Today’s decision undermines decades of evidence-based public health policy and sends a deeply confusing message to families at a time when vaccine confidence is already under strain.”
The American Academy of Pediatrics condemned the changes as “dangerous and unnecessary,” and said that it will continue to publish its own schedule of recommended immunizations. In September, California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii announced that those four states would follow an independent immunization schedule based on recommendations from the AAP and other medical groups.
The federal changes have been anticipated since December, when President Trump signed a presidential memorandum directing the health department to update the pediatric vaccine schedule “to align with such scientific evidence and best practices from peer, developed countries.”
The new U.S. vaccination guidelines are much closer to those of Denmark, which routinely vaccinates its children against only 10 diseases.
As doctors and public health experts have pointed out, Denmark also has a robust system of government-funded universal healthcare, a smaller and more homogenous population, and a different disease burden.
“The vaccines that are recommended in any particular country reflect the diseases that are prevalent in that country,” said Dr. Kelly Gebo, dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. “Just because one country has a vaccine schedule that is perfectly reasonable for that country, it may not be at all reasonable” elsewhere.
Almost every pregnant woman in Denmark is screened for hepatitis B, for example. In the U.S., less than 85% of pregnant women are screened for the disease.
Instead, the U.S. has relied on universal vaccination to protect children whose mothers don’t receive adequate care during pregnancy. Hepatitis B has been nearly eliminated in the U.S. since the vaccine was introduced in 1991. Last month, a panel of Kennedy appointees voted to drop the CDC’s decades-old recommendation that all newborns be vaccinated against the disease at birth.
“Viruses and bacteria that were under control are being set free on our most vulnerable,” said Dr. James Alwine, a virologist and member of the nonprofit advocacy group Defend Public Health. “It may take one or two years for the tragic consequences to become clear, but this is like asking farmers in North Dakota to grow pineapples. It won’t work and can’t end well.”
Tonishea Harris was a fashionista with a unique laugh, always put together and a mother of two young children expecting her third child.
She hoped to pursue interior design using her skill for organizing, family members said. Tonishea was shot and killed last month in a case of domestic violence. She leaves behind a toddler daughter and son.
The 36-year-old mother was about four months pregnant with a girl when she was shot Oct. 10 in the 5200 block of Cross Plains Court, in southwest Fort Worth near Benbrook, police have said. She arrived in a private vehicle at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital, where she died.
The father of her children, 21-year-old Joseph Weathered, was arrested and faces a charge of capital murder of multiple people in the deaths of Tonishea Harris and her unborn baby. He’s in the Tarrant County Jail with bond set at $500,000.
“I called Tonishea, ‘Mama’ when she was a baby,” her father, Antonio Harris, said in an interview with the Star-Telegram. “I told her, ‘I’m gonna teach you how to take care of me.’ And she took care of the world and everybody around her.”
Antonio Harris with his daughter, Tonishea Harris. Courtesy of Antonio Harris
Harris said his daughter was the type of person who always paid attention to others, and made sure that everything and everybody was all right around her. “She was just one that brought about the order and made sure that everybody else was enjoying where they were at that time,” he said.
“I learned what love at first sight was with my daughter. When I saw her, something told me, ‘Man, you have to take care of this for the rest of your life,’” Harris said. “She was the same way — it was instant love for those babies.”
Harris said his daughter was always prepared, ready for motherhood and nurturing to the fullest. “Her life was wrapped around who they (her children) were — that’s all she wanted, to be a mother,” he said.
Father and daughter’s last conversation
Three days before the shooting, on Oct. 7, Tonishea called her father and said, “Daddy, I’m through with him (Joseph).”
Antonio Harris said this was the first time he heard about problems in their relationship. Tonishea told him she wanted Weathered to sign papers regarding custody of the children.
Antonio Harris lost his daughter, Tonishea Harris, 36, to suspected domestic violence. Tonishea and her unborn child died from a gunshot wound on Oct. 10. “I will miss her voice and her laugh because she was always joyful,” Antonio Harris said. Amanda McCoy amccoy@star-telegram.com
“Something just told me like this was a strange conversation, so in my mind I was going to revisit that conversation,” he said.
At the end of the call, Harris heard his favorite words one last time: “I love you, Daddy.”
“Daddy was the word that meant everything in the world to me,” he said.
Coping with loss that’s ‘really unbelievable’
Antonio Harris and his twin brother were celebrating their birthday when he got a call from Joseph’s father, who told him Tonishea had been shot, he said.
“I was like, wait a minute — you know how you take a look at the phone, and make sure that you know this person, first of all, and then you’re trying to figure out what in the world did he just say,” he said.
Antonio Harris, left, talks about the loss of daughter Tonishea Harris with his brother, Anthony, on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. Amanda McCoy amccoy@star-telegram.com
At the hospital, a doctor came out and told Harris that they tried to stop the bleeding, but Tonishea lost too much blood and she died. When he heard those words, he was in disbelief.
“The breeze of reality slowly sinks in, and that’s where I am now. It’s really unbelievable, but I’m a realist,” Harris said. “I take with me from my baby the fact that she was one that created her own path and did what she thought was necessary.”
“I’m still in a state of, ‘Is this really happening’? And I think everybody probably goes through that stage,” Harris said. “But I’m at rest with who she is, because I can’t do anything about it.”
Antonio Harris shows a locket with a picture with his daughter, Tonishea Harris, while talking about her on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. Tonishea Harris, 36, and her unborn child died from a gunshot wound on Oct. 10 Amanda McCoy amccoy@star-telegram.com
Harris said he did not know about the pregnancy until he was at the hospital.
If he could talk to Joseph, he would tell him, “You had the best thing in the world. I can only imagine your world without it.”
Tonishea’s two children are now with her mother, Djuana Bullard, Harris said. “My soul responsibility is to ensure the happiness and the joy of those babies in this lifetime,” he said.
Two families affected by tragedy
Taviana Weathered, Joseph’s sister, said Tonishea and her children always came to family events looking well put-together and healthy.
She said Tonishea was the best mom to her babies. “That just makes me tear up because she was truly a good mom, and she really pushed us to be aunties,” Taviana said, with her voice shaking.
Tonishea Harris Courtesy of Antonio Harris
“I love her so much,” Taviana said. “I don’t think this is the way she should be remembered and this is not the way that she should have gone.”
Taviana never knew what was going on with her because Tonishea was private, she said.
And as Joseph’s elder sister, she said she hadn’t spoken much to her brother since she moved out of the family home.
“I love you (Joseph) but I can’t condone anything if you are doing anything that may put you in a bad way,” she said.
Taviana said it was sad, but she and her sister felt accepted at Tonishea’s funeral. “We were able to be there for our family, which is our niece and nephew. We love you, Miss Tonishea, and it broke our hearts,” she said.
Antonio Harris at the funeral of his daughter, Tonishea Harris, 36. She was shot on Oct. 10, 2025, while pregnant with her third child. Courtesy of Antonio Harris
As the case moves forward, both families are focused on what’s best for the children.
“I hope the facts come out. That’s all we can say — everyone wants the facts to come out,” Taviana said. “I always pray that he’s the best version of himself … We don’t have any expectations for him outside of being the best man for himself and his kids. I really do stand on that. Even if things go left or right, he should be the best man for those kids, even if it starts today.”
Urging domestic violence victims to seek help
In December 2023, Joseph Weathered pleaded guilty to the offense of continuous violence against a family member and was sentenced to three years in prison. In that case in July 2022, Weathered, who was then 18 years old, hit a person he was dating and dragged her across the ground and separately pushed her, causing her to hit a window, according to court records. The victim in that case was not Harris.
“If you’re in that type of environment, whether you’re the perpetrator or the one who’s the victim, help yourself. Get out of it, because it may lead to death or a prison sentence,” Antonio Harris said.
“Understand what domestic violence is,” Harris said. “Our problem is that we don’t know when it becomes what that is. It sneaks up on us.”
Antonio Harris tears up while thinking about his daughter, Tonishea Harris, 36, on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. Tonishea and her unborn child died from a gunshot wound on Oct. 10. “I will miss her voice and her laugh because she was always joyful,” Harris said. Amanda McCoy amccoy@star-telegram.com
Taviana Weathered said she also dealt with domestic violence in a previous relationship and, “I think it’s best to advocate for yourself.”
“If you’re not going to stick up for you, stick up for those babies, because they don’t deserve to see their parents go through anything,” she said. “You don’t deserve to be stalked or harassed or anything. You have to stick up for yourself and get away from it.”
Shambhavi covers crime, law enforcement and other breaking news in Fort Worth and Tarrant County. She graduated from the University of North Texas and previously covered a variety of general assignment topics in West Texas. She grew up in Nepal.
Tonishea Harris was shot to death on Oct. 10, 2025, in Fort Worth.
Family photo courtesy of GoFundMe
Three weeks ago, a man shot a pregnant woman with whom he has other children, killing her and the fetus in Fort Worth, police said.
Police on Friday arrested the suspect, 21-year-old Joseph Weathered, on suspicion of capital murder of multiple people in the Oct. 10 killings of Tonishea Harris and her unborn child.
Harris, 36, was about four months pregnant with a girl, according to police. She was shot in the 5200 block of Cross Plains Court, in southwest Fort Worth near Benbrook. She arrived in a private vehicle at a hospital in the early morning and was pronounced dead in the emergency room.
In December 2023, Weathered pleaded guilty to the offense of continuous violence against the family and was sentenced to three years in prison.
In that case in Arlington in July 2022, Weathered, then 18, hit a person he was dating and dragged her across the ground and separately pushed her, causing her to hit a window. The victim was not Harris.
Emerson Clarridge covers crime and other breaking news for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He works days and reports on law enforcement affairs in Tarrant County. He previously was a reporter at the Omaha World-Herald and the Observer-Dispatch in Utica, New York.
GREENWICH, Connecticut (WABC) — A police officer in Connecticut may have earned himself the honorary title of uncle after he helped bring a baby boy into the world.
A pregnant woman and her husband were on their way to Stamford Hospital for a prenatal checkup when their car hit a pot hole and sustained two flat tires.
Upon arrival, Greenwich Officer Joshua Weinstock made contact with the couple, who said that although the baby was not due for another three weeks, the woman was experiencing abdominal pain. The couple called 911 when the pain worsened, as she suspected she was in labor.
As the woman continued to have contractions, Officer Weinstock advised her to push until she delivered her son. The woman eventually gave birth to a healthy baby boy, whom the couple named James Vincent Sanford.
First responders transported the couple and their newborn to Greenwich Hospital for post-birth treatment.
The Greenwich Police Department has since named Weinstock as “Officer of the Month” for quick-thinking actions and professionalism on the job.
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The Orange County district attorney’s office said Courtney Fritz Pandolfi, 44, already had multiple DUI convictions when she got behind the wheel on Aug. 11, 2020, while high on a combination of drugs, including cocaine and methamphetamine, and fatally hit 23-year-old Yesenia Aguilar.
Aguilar was eight months pregnant and out walking with her husband in Anaheim when Pandolfi jumped the curb with her Jeep SUV, crashing into a metal newspaper stand before barreling toward the couple and hitting Aguilar.
Prosecutors said Pandolfi continued driving an additional 347 feet without braking before her Jeep became disabled.
The baby, Adalyn Rose, was delivered alive in an emergency C-section.
“A beautiful little girl came into the world fighting like hell to survive the tragedy that took her own mother’s life, and the strength that little girl has shown gave her own father the will to live,” Orange County Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer said in a statement.
“Adalyn Rose’s first breath will be forever inextricably intertwined with her mother’s last breath,” Spitzer continued, “but that little girl will grow up knowing that her mother’s last act on earth was to do whatever she could to protect her unborn baby.”
Pandolfi, of Garden Grove, pleaded guilty in February to murder and a variety of other charges, including felony driving under the influence of drugs causing bodily injury and two misdemeanors for driving with a suspended license. Some of the counts stemmed from Pandolfi driving under the influence of drugs in November 2019.
Pandolfi had also been convicted of DUIs in 2008, 2015 and 2016, prosecutors said, and received formal legal warnings each time that she could be charged with murder if she went on to kill someone while driving under the influence.
“My client accomplished today what she wanted to do, which was to spare the family the additional grief and heartache of a trial,” Pandolfi’s attorney, Fred Fascenelli, said when she pleaded guilty in February. “She recognizes it was a tragic situation of her making.”
Aguilar’s widower, James Alvarez, posted a video on social media of himself leaving the courtroom with his daughter, now 3, after the sentencing. He wrote that after “the toughest 3 years that [he’d] had to endure,” it was “finally over.”
“I can finally close this chapter of my life,” Alvarez wrote on Instagram. “My late wife’s killer finally received the maximum sentence. Even though 15 years to life isn’t enough, I can finally breathe after fighting for so long to get the justice that we deserve. … and [I] will continue to fight to make sure she never gets out.”
He continued: “I was given a second chance in life because I could have died too … so I’m going to use this second opportunity to do good in this world. I’m going [to be] the voice and strength of every person that lost a loved one from another person’s selfish acts.”
CHICAGO (WLS) — An 11-year-old boy was killed in the Edgewater neighborhood Wednesday.
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Alderman Andre Vazquez, who represents the 40th Ward, said the child’s mother was also injured. The Chicago Fire Department said they transported a 33-year-old pregnant woman in critical condition to a local hospital.
A large Chicago police presence was at the scene in the 5900 block of North Ravenswood Avenue. Crime tape surrounded the parking lot an apartment building. Officers discovered the boy with an injury to the chest, and the woman had multiple wounds, Chicago police said.
The boy was pronounced dead at a hospital, police said. The victim was identified to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office as Jaydone Perkins.
Authorities in Texas indicated that they believe they found the body of missing pregnant teen Samantha Soto, 18, who sparked a CLEAR alert after she failed to show up at the hospital for her scheduled induced labor last week.
San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) Chief William McManus held a press conference Tuesday announcing that two people had been found dead in a car, adding that the crime scene was “complex” and “perplexing.”
McManus said the bodies were found in a Kia, described previously as belonging to Soto’s boyfriend Matthew Guerra, 22, at an apartment complex on the city’s northwest side. The chief did not confirm their identities but said he believes they’re Soto and Guerra. He did not comment on whether Soto’s unborn baby survived.
The chief added that SAPD is investigating the case as a homicide.
Authorities in San Antonio, Texas, said they believe they have found the bodies of a missing pregnant teenager and her boyfriend in a car on the city’s northwest side. Getty
McManus said it wasn’t clear how the pair died but said that their bodies had been in the car for roughly three or four days before they were discovered.
“It’s a very, very perplexing crime scene,” he said. “Detectives are looking at this as a possible murder, but we’re not sure. We can’t say for sure what we have.”
Newsweek reached out via email and Facebook on Tuesday to SAPD and Soto’s family for comment.
Gloria Cardova, who identified herself as Soto’s mother on social media, posted to Facebook on December 23, pleading for the public’s help in finding her daughter, saying that Soto was scheduled to be induced into labor at 6:30 p.m. that evening but did not show up to the hospital. She said that she is “worried about her safety.”
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) issued a CLEAR Alert for Soto on Christmas Day after the teen, who was nine months pregnant, was reported to have last been seen around 2 p.m. December 22 in the 6000 block of Grissom Road in Leon Valley, Texas, with Guerra.
CLEAR alerts are issued when one is in “imminent danger or disappearance was involuntary.” DPS said Soto was driving a 2013 gray Kia Optima at the time of her disappearance.
“The Leon Valley Police Department has been notified of the disappearance of Savannah Nicole Soto, who was reported missing by her family,” the alert read. “Ms. Soto, who is pregnant and has passed her delivery date, has caused significant concern among her family members after missing an essential medical appointment.”
SAPD had been searching for a 2013 Kia Optima, which McManus confirmed is where the two bodies were found on Tuesday night. The chief said the family was alerted that the car was spotted at the apartment complex and called police.
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