Lorenzo Larry Knew De’Shayla Ferguson Was Pregnant: Cops

Lorenzo Larry and De’Shayla Ferguson.

The case of a Florida boy aged 17 who shot his 16-year-old girlfriend and killed her revealed in court documents that the accused knew his victim was pregnant with the child. Lorenzo Michael Larry For allegedly murdering a woman, he is being charged with second-degree Murder. De’Shayla Ferguson And one count of injuring the mother and killing an unborn child.

Larry is being charged as an Adult.

As previously reported by Law&Crime, authorities have alleged that Larry on Oct. 28 killed Ferguson — who had been reported missing in August 2022 — with a single bullet to the head following a heated argument between the two. Police claim she was shot in her right temple near her hairline and that she died in the driveway in front of her home in Orlando’s 5000 block of Broken Pine Circle.

According to court documents, which were released on Friday Katrina MooreA neighbor and witness to the shooting told police that she heard what she thought was a gunshot. She went outside to investigate.

“She stated she came out to see what was going on and she saw a girl with a book bag on who walked past her,” court documents state. “Katrina Moore stated she asked the girl ‘what happened?’ and the girl replied ‘Lorenzo just shot his baby momma. Katrina Moore indicated to me that the girl was Lorenzo Larry’s sister.”

The defendant’s 14-year-old sister, allegedly told police that she was in the garage with the door closed when she heard a gunshot. She claimed that she ran through the house, out of the back door and then went around the front to find her brother. Once there, she allegedly told police that “her brother looked at her and spontaneously implied that he accidentally shot the victim, by saying something to the effect of, ‘I didn’t mean to do it.’”

According to her sister, her brother wrapped the handgun in black-and-white cloth and ran into the house. He then got into a car and drove away with two male passengers.

Larry’s mother, Pamela PattersonAccording to investigators, the driver of the car was Jerome Southerland, who allegedly told police that he dropped Larry off at an intersection “no questions asked.” Southerland allegedly told police that he did not see any firearm during the time Larry was in his vehicle.

Police say that during her interview with investigators, Patterson also “made it very clear that her son, Lorenzo Michael Larry, was aware that Da’Shayla Ferguson was pregnant with his child.”

One of Larry’s friends allegedly told police that he was on the front porch at the time of the shooting. Per the probable cause affidavit, the boy looked up to see Larry, who said, “Bro, what the fuck? I just shot her.” The friend said Larry then went inside carrying a gun.

Earlier in the day, the friend said he’d witnessed Larry arguing with Ferguson and “saw him slapping the victim.”

Investigators also allege that Larry also killed a 23 year-old. Jemile Pittman On December 8, 2021, a gunshot to the head caused a serious injury.

“He admitted to shooting Jemile but claimed it was self-defense, although he fled the scene, disposed of a gun and fled to another state. So in those cases where the suspect claims self-defense, we work closely with our state attorney’s office,” Orange County Sheriff John Mina At a news conference held earlier in the month, he stated. “We give them our investigative report for them to review so they can make a determination on that case. That was done back in July, and the state attorney’s office has not made a determination in that case as of yet.”

[image via Orange County Sheriff’s Office]

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