Father-to-be who 'did not agree' with his new baby's name unloaded nearly a dozen shots through a window, killing sleeping ex-girlfriend and unborn child, cops say

A Georgia antheral allegedly fired astir a twelve shots done his pregnant ex-girlfriend's chamber window, striking her arsenic she slept with her 2 young children.

Devin Lamar Anthony, 26, stands accused of malice murder, feticide, aggravated battle with a limb and felon successful possession of a firearm successful the decease of 23-year-old Shakiya Pridgen.

The DeKalb County Police Department responded astir 5:15 a.m. June 16 to a study of a idiosyncratic changeable successful the 3300 artifact of Peppertree Circle. Cops recovered Pridgen suffering from aggregate gunshot wounds. Paramedics rushed her to the hospital, wherever some she and the babe died.

A probable origin apprehension affidavit obtained by Law&Crime said Anthony, the begetter of the unborn child, allegedly walked up to the chamber model wherever helium knew Pridgen and the kids were sleeping and fired 11 shots.

Pridgen, who was conscionable 2 weeks distant from giving birth, was sleeping successful the furniture with her kids, ages 1 and 3. The kids were not hurt.

Investigators utilized postulation cameras to spot Anthony's conveyance astatine the scene. According to the affidavit, the mates precocious broke up implicit allegations of infidelity and Pridgen picking a sanction for the babe that Anthony "did not hold with."

The victim's household told reporters that she had a babe ablution conscionable days earlier her death. The babe lad was acceptable to beryllium named Kyren.

"I privation the satellite to cognize that idiosyncratic took a blessing, a blessing, from each of us, and we volition get justice," her parent Verdina Scott said. "This volition not beryllium the past clip you perceive from us, we volition get justness for you, Shakiya and Kyren."

Local NBC affiliate WXIA reported that Anthony antecedently pleaded blameworthy to voluntary manslaughter successful a abstracted homicide lawsuit successful adjacent Fulton County. He was capable to hitch the condemnation disconnected his grounds aft helium completed probation arsenic portion of the Peach State's First Offender Act.

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Pridgen's father, Wakiel Pridgeon, said helium thinks officials were excessively lenient connected Anthony.

"If you wanted to termination your ain child, you'll termination anybody," helium said. "You don't person a heart. You're conscionable a menace to society."

The incidental occurred conscionable days earlier Father's Day, leaving him reeling.

"I'm not expected to beryllium burying my daughter. My daughter's gonna beryllium burying me," her begetter said.

A GoFundMe is raising wealth for the victim's 2 surviving children.

"No household should ever person to acquisition a nonaccomplishment similar this, and we are coming unneurotic to assistance easiness the load and enactment the household arsenic they navigate the days ahead," the statement says.

Anthony remains successful the DeKalb County Jail without bond.