Man stabs, beats pregnant girlfriend with baseball bat before covering her body with blankets and driving off with woman he met online: Cops

A antheral allegedly stabbed and beat his woman to decease with a shot bat earlier covering her assemblage with blankets extracurricular a Georgia flat analyzable and driving disconnected with a pistillate helium met online.

Mystique Malachi Amaziah Taylor, 23, stands accused of felony murder, aggravated battle and concealing the decease of another. Rolanda Monique Edwards, 25, faces charges of enactment to a crime, concealing the decease of different and hindering apprehension of a criminal.

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According to the Rome Police Department, cops responded around noon connected Tuesday for a study of a assemblage recovered adjacent Hull Avenue and Cedar Avenue. When they arrived, they discovered the assemblage of a 20-year-old pistillate from Tennessee named Kaylee B. Shackelford.

Witnesses stated they saw a reddish car successful the country conscionable anterior to the find of Shackelford's body. Cops aboriginal discovered the car astir 20 miles distant successful Bartow County and arrested the suspects aft a conveyance pursuit.

Detectives accidental Shackelford and Taylor were dating and helium precocious started an online narration with Edwards.

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According to section NBC affiliate WXIA, a justice astatine a enslaved proceeding said Taylor stabbed Shackelford successful the neck, thorax and look with a weapon and past deed her successful the caput with a shot bat. Cops person not publically divulged a motive for the crime. They did accidental neither Taylor nor Shackelford are from the Rome area. Shackelford lived successful Powell, Tennessee, which is astir 160 miles northeast of the transgression scene.

On Friday, cops added a feticide complaint against Taylor aft it was discovered that Shackelford was pregnant.

Taylor is being held without enslaved portion Edwards has a $5,000 bond.