‘I have no idea’: Man played dumb with family after murdering pregnant girlfriend, daughter who died months after emergency C-section

A Georgia antheral volition walk the remainder of his beingness down bars for shooting and sidesplitting his large woman and daughter, who was calved but lone survived for immoderate 4 months.

A assemblage connected Friday recovered 24-year-old Diamonte Haithcoats blameworthy of malice murder, 2 counts of felony murder, aggravated assault-family unit and possession of a firearm successful the committee of a felony successful the deaths of 20-year-old Shaniyah Rodriguez and their babe Milliani Rodriguez, the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office said successful a press release.

Immediately pursuing the verdict, Dekalb County Superior Court Judge Yolanda Parker-Smith sentenced Haithcoats to 2 beingness sentences, without the anticipation of parole, the DA said.

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Deputies with the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office responded to a shooting astir 5:45 a.m. Feb. 2, 2023, astatine a condominium analyzable connected Old Singleton Lane successful the Atlanta suburb of Clarkston. A nonmigratory heard gunfire and went retired to investigate. He recovered a pistillate aboriginal identified arsenic Rodriguez suffering from a gunshot coiled to the head.

Paramedics arrived and rushed Rodriguez to the hospital, wherever doctors performed an exigency cesarean conception to present her baby. Rodriguez died 2 days later. Milliani died connected June 19, 2023.

Investigators recovered 7 firearm ammunition casings connected the scene, and the witnesser said helium saw a dark-colored SUV driving distant aft the shooting. Street cameras captured a acheronian bluish Hyundai Palisade leaving the complex. Days later, they recovered the abandoned Palisade. It had been stolen.

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Rodriguez’s telephone had been connected to the vehicle’s Bluetooth conscionable minutes earlier the 911 call, prosecutors said. Detectives turned connected her telephone and it automatically connected to the Palisade.

Detectives aboriginal learned Rodriguez told a person her narration with Haithcoats was falling isolated and she feared for his safety. They besides placed Haithcoats astatine the country via his cellphone.

Adrienne Rodriguez, Shaniyah Rodriguez’s parent and Millani’s grandmother, testified astatine the trial, according to a courtroom study from Atlanta ABC affiliate WSB.

She began to fishy Haithcoats successful the days aft the slaying, truthful she called him and made a signaling which the jurors heard.

“Who did this, Monte?” Adrienne Rodriguez reportedly asked.

“I person nary idea. No idea,” Haithcoats replied.

The grief-stricken parent and grandma became affectional erstwhile she spoke of each the effort she enactment into redeeming Milliani.

“I tried everything to hole that mistake,” she reportedly testified done tears. “That babe was expected to beryllium here.”