A Pennsylvania man is accused of shooting his pregnant girlfriend in the head while she was watching TV, allegedly telling EMS workers that he was “blacked out” and “in there” — another way of saying he was high — after smoking, according to police.
“I was fried, man,” Kaiheem Jerelle Williams allegedly told first responders after killing his longtime live-in girlfriend, Tanyiah Bell, on November 14 in their Delaware County apartment. “I was outside smoking,” Williams stated in his criminal complaint. “I was in there.”
The 19-year-old is accused of shooting Bell in the head with a.45-caliber handgun at their Lansdowne home, according to local police. Williams summoned officers from the Lansdowne Police Department to the residence that evening. When they arrived, he allegedly told them, “My baby’s shot,”
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Bell, also 19, was “clearly pregnant,” according to the complaint, so officers transported her body to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in an effort to save the unborn child.
According to a Lansdowne Police press release, she is eight months pregnant, and cops believe the child will not survive without the use of life support machines after undergoing “emergency surgery,” according to the complaint.
“The child was born alive at the time of the emergency surgery and is currently on life support with minimal neurological brain activity,” according to police reports. “The condition is irreversible.” “The child is not expected to survive without life support machines.”
During police interviews, Williams claimed he was alone with Bell at their apartment when he allegedly killed her.
“He returned from work, spent approximately an hour in the apartment eating and ‘smoking’ with Bell, and then left to go to the store,” according to the complaint! “When he returned home, Bell was ‘fine’ watching TV in his bedroom.
He turned around and ‘blacked out.’ His next memory was dialing 911 from Bell’s phone because she had been shot.
Williams was arrested on November 15 and charged with first-degree murder. Doorbell video captured at the scene shows him allegedly leaving his apartment about 15 minutes before reporting the shooting. He was also caught with a.45-caliber bullet in his pocket, according to the complaint.
