'He's never gonna see her again': Toddler left 'calling his mother's name' after boyfriend fatally shot her during argument, police say

A 19-year-old antheral successful South Carolina is accused of shooting and killing his woman during a home dispute, leaving the victim's 3-year-old kid connected the sofa calling for his mother.

Jayvion Nyrek Rice was taken into custody and charged with 1 number each of execution and possession of a limb during the committee of a convulsive transgression successful the slaying of 21-year-old Skyy Ernestasjah Logan, tribunal records show.

At astir 9 p.m. connected Tuesday, Feb. 3, deputies with the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office responded to a study of an accidental shooting astatine a location located connected Farm Creek Road successful Inman, section NBC affiliate WYFF reported. The residence is astir 250 miles northwest of Charleston, South Carolina.

Rice's parent placed the 911 call, section CBS affiliate WSPA reported.

Upon arriving astatine the address, archetypal responders located a woman, aboriginal identified arsenic Logan, extracurricular connected the beforehand structure suffering from an evident gunshot coiled to the torso. Paramedics transported the unfortunate to Spartanburg Regional Medical Center wherever she succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dormant soon earlier midnight.

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In his archetypal connection to investigators, Rice told deputies that helium was handling a firearm successful the location erstwhile the weapon accidentally went off, firing a circular that struck Logan. However, the sheriff's bureau reportedly obtained carnal grounds contradicting Rice's assertion that the shooting was accidental.

Specifically, deputies reportedly discovered that the suspect and the unfortunate had been successful a romanticist narration and were successful the mediate of an statement erstwhile Rice fatally changeable Logan. He was placed nether apprehension astatine astir 1 a.m. connected Wednesday, jail records show.

Rice made his archetypal quality successful tribunal connected Wednesday wherever a region justice informed him that, if convicted, helium faced a maximum imaginable condemnation of beingness without the anticipation of parole.

Prosecutors seeking to support Rice held without enslaved until his proceedings provided further details astir the circumstances of the alleged murder, indicating that astatine slightest portion of the shooting was captured connected camera.

"The unfortunate is 21-year-old Skyy Logan," Assistant Solicitor Anthony Leibert told the justice successful footage posted by WSPA. "Her 3-year-old small lad was sitting connected a sofa aft the shooting, calling his mother's name. He doesn't cognize yet, he's ne'er gonna spot her again. She was changeable 1 clip successful the cervix and the thorax area. On the video, there's humor exploding retired of her assemblage earlier she collapses and dies."

The justice sided with prosecutors and ordered Rice to beryllium held successful the Spartanburg County Detention Center without bond. He is presently scheduled to marque his adjacent tribunal quality connected April 16, records show.