'That girl is dead': Man admitted to friend that he shot missing mom in the head during a fight, police say

A North Carolina antheral is down bars aft constabulary said helium murdered his girlfriend and abandoned her assemblage successful her car.

Lorenza Inman Jr., 38, was arrested connected Dec. 12, 1 time aft constabulary recovered the assemblage of 31-year-old Frezja Baker successful her car down a religion successful Charlotte. According to an affidavit reviewed by Law&Crime, Baker was reported missing aft she was past seen by her household connected Dec. 4, the aforesaid time her household heard Inman's dependable successful the inheritance during a telephone telephone with her.

Inman's probation serviceman contacted constabulary aft a witnesser told her, "Lorenza told maine that they got into an argument, the weapon went off, and [Baker] was changeable successful the head."

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According to the affidavit, constabulary started investigating Baker's telephone and fiscal records aft she was reported missing connected Dec. 6. Police tracked her enactment to a Mobil state presumption connected Dec. 4, wherever she was seen connected surveillance video with Inman conscionable earlier 10 p.m. Inman was allegedly seen shoving Baker respective times into a show lawsuit and into the coolers, past throwing an point astatine Baker "hard" and hitting her successful the back.

Inman and Baker were seen connected the video getting into her car, with Inman down the wheel, and leaving the Mobil station. Police said they investigated 2 telephone numbers registered to Baker; 1 of them stopped enactment astatine 10:30 p.m. connected Dec. 4, the different stopped astatine 8 a.m. connected Dec. 5.

Police received a extremity done Crime Stoppers connected Dec. 9 that Baker was dead, and her assemblage was connected the rider broadside of her car. Baker was recovered connected Dec. 11. After the discovery, Inman's probation serviceman told constabulary that she received a extremity connected Dec. 9 from a "known witness." The witnesser told the probation officer, "Ya'll looking for Frezja Baker, and that miss is dead. Don't cognize wherever her assemblage is at, but her car is parked determination adjacent my house. Lorenza told maine that they got into an argument, the weapon went off, and she was changeable successful the head."

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When constabulary spoke to the witnesser successful person, they said that Inman made the admittance connected Dec. 7. The witnesser stated that Inman told them astir circumstantial details that "would lone beryllium known by idiosyncratic with intimate cognition of the scene."

Inman, who has a past of home unit arrests, was arrested connected Dec. 12 and charged with murder, battle connected a female, and home violence. During a proceeding connected Monday, Inman was denied enslaved and ordered to stay down bars. His adjacent tribunal day is scheduled for Jan. 2, 2026.

Members of Baker's household were at the hearing and spoke to section ABC affiliate WSOC. Her aunt told the outlet that her niece was "just a bully idiosyncratic who met a monster. And she trusted a monster."

Baker is survived by a 2-year-old son.