A pregnant 19-year-old in Michigan who stopped at a gas station to get a soda was shot in the head and killed, along with her unborn child, by another teen who walked into the station’s store and “immediately” started blasting at someone who was inside, cops say.
“A shootout ensues almost instantaneously, and the victim was caught in the crossfire,” said Saginaw County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Blair Stevenson last week during the arraignment of Korvareaon Smith, 17, who is charged with open murder, assault with intent to murder, homicide-willful killing of an unborn quick child, discharging a firearm in or at a building and felony firearm, according to local ABC affiliate WJRT.
“It appears that she was at a hospital that night experiencing contractions and she stopped at a gas station to get a pop,” Stevenson said about victim Kendall Berrington, who was killed on New Year’s Eve.
Court documents obtained by MLive.com say Smith drew a pistol “immediately upon entering” the Marathon gas station on Court Street in Saginaw and opened fire on “another individual inside of the store.” A 22-year-old man who was in the store with Berrington was also shot and critically injured. A mother who was inside with her 7-year-old narrowly escaped unscathed, prosecutors say.