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Charges Filed After Pregnant Motorist Shot in Sugar Creek

Doctors report a fetal heartbeat with the suspect jailed on a $200,000 cash-only bond.

Overview

  • Police responded around 4:30–4:40 p.m. near Kentucky Road and Sterling Avenue after reports of shots fired and found a woman wounded in a Chevrolet SUV.
  • Officers applied a tourniquet to an upper-thigh gunshot wound; she was later placed in a medically induced coma as doctors located a fetal heartbeat and described the baby's condition as day to day.
  • The victim's husband identified a nearby driver as the shooter, and officers say Jermaine E. Hall fled, crashed through gates at the Buckeye Fuel Depot, and was taken into custody.
  • A semitruck driver told police he fired two warning shots when the suspect tried to get into his cab before officers arrested the man.
  • Investigators report recovering three handguns, 26 spent shell casings, ammunition, marijuana, and suspected cocaine; Hall faces counts of unlawful use of a weapon, armed criminal action, and aggravated fleeing and told police "what happened was an accident."