'Had been feuding with her current boyfriend': Man shoots and kills pregnant ex-girlfriend and her unborn child in 'targeted' highway attack, police say

A Texas antheral is down bars aft a "targeted" shooting connected a engaged road that near a large pistillate dead, Lone Star State constabulary say.

Malik Miner, 29, stands accused of 1 number of murder successful the archetypal degree, 1 number of deadly conduct, and 3 counts of aggravated battle with a deadly weapon, according to the Arlington Police Department.

The underlying incidental occurred successful aboriginal November on a agelong of Interstate 20 successful Arlington, the 3rd largest metropolis successful the sprawling Metroplex portion of North Texas, constabulary said successful a press release.

On the time successful question, Bre'Asia Johnson, 29, was traveling westbound toward Bowman Springs Road erstwhile the shots rang out.

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The operator of the car, Johnson's boyfriend, pulled implicit astatine a QuikTrip state presumption connected Little Road to telephone 911. Both the operator and Johnson were struck by the bullets; 2 children successful the car were not earnestly injured.

Johnson was pronounced dormant astatine the country conscionable earlier 8 p.m., her fellow was taken to a adjacent infirmary for treatment, constabulary said.

Detectives aboriginal confirmed that Johnson, who was recovered unresponsive successful the beforehand rider spot of her boyfriend's car, was large and that her unborn kid had besides been killed arsenic a effect of the shooting.

One of the children had besides been struck by falling solid from 1 of the car's changeable retired and shattered windows, according to an apprehension warrant affidavit obtained by Dallas-based ABC affiliate WFAA.

A 2nd conveyance was besides deed by the gunfire, constabulary say. That vehicle, however, is believed to beryllium unrelated; those wrong were uninjured.

A hunt of the road turned up 2 antithetic caliber ammunition casings utilized successful the shooting, according to instrumentality enforcement.

In the ensuing investigation, constabulary identified Miner arsenic the fishy by mode of witnesser interviews and surveillance footage.

"[D]etectives determined the shooting was targeted and not the effect of roadworthy rage," the constabulary section alleges. "Through the people of their investigation, they learned that Mr. Miner was antecedently successful a romanticist narration with Ms. Johnson and had been feuding with her existent boyfriend, the 28-year-old man."

Police yet executed a hunt warrant connected Miner's residence and seized respective items, including his cellphone, according to the constabulary department. A reappraisal of the integer allegedly turned up anterior connection betwixt the suspect and Johnson's boyfriend.

And determination was besides immoderate tell-tale determination data, constabulary say.

"Detectives besides compared compartment telephone determination records from Mr. Miner's telephone and Ms. Johnson's phone," the property merchandise goes on. "They not lone placed Mr. Miner astatine the transgression country erstwhile the shooting occurred but besides showed that his movements were astir identical to Ms. Johnson's movements successful the minutes starring up to the shooting. The compartment telephone determination records suggest that Mr. Minor followed the victims' conveyance that night."

Miner, for his part, declined to talk to instrumentality enforcement aft his apprehension connected Thursday evening, constabulary say.