{"id":324404,"date":"2025-01-12T13:58:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T19:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=324404"},"modified":"2025-01-10T23:36:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T05:36:59","slug":"man-charged-murder-feticide-pregnant-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/man-charged-murder-feticide-pregnant-girlfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder and feticide after killing pregnant girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Indiana man has been charged with murdering his girlfriend and their preborn child in an appalling act of domestic violence.<\/p>\n

Police arrested<\/a> 22-year-old Regulus Baka after discovering 19-year-old Sha\u2019Naiya Nicole McDonald had been brutally murdered<\/a>. She had been punched, beaten in the head with a space heater and kitchen pan, and then stabbed, before Baka allegedly wrapped her face with tape, suffocating her to death.<\/p>\n

“I just wanted her dead,” he said, according to court documents. He also admitted that she was screaming for help as he attacked her \u2014 screams neighbors could hear, which prompted them to call the police. Her body was eventually found by her roommate, who told police that McDonald had been pregnant with Baka’s baby.<\/p>\n