Isaac Smith Killed His 5 Months Pregnant Lover Because He Had A New Girlfriend

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Isaac Smith, 30, is charged with criminal homicide and criminal homicide of an unborn child in the death of 26-year-old Karli Short, who authorities say was 5 months pregnant at the time of her death. Smith's trial began on Tuesday.

On the morning of Sept. 13, 2021, Short was at her uncle's home, where she also lived in McKeesport, Pennsylvania.

Short and Smith had been romantically involved, but according to him, only a few times, and he had a new girlfriend. Still, Short believed her baby belonged to Smith, and she had asked him for money and texted him about a gender reveal party just two days before, per court documents obtained by local ABC affiliate WTAE.

On the morning in question, Short's uncle reportedly heard her talking to someone on the phone.

"Are you coming to the front or the back?" her uncle heard her ask before she walked outside and he heard a gunshot. She was killed, and prosecutors — including Allegheny County Deputy District Attorney Ryan Kiray — believe it was Smith who lured her to the yard and killed her.

Just hours after the shooting, Smith showed up at the Allegheny County Police Department's headquarters and gave them a three-hour interview, saying he wanted to clear his name. In addition to acknowledging that he had been intimate with Short, he said he was willing to be in the child's life.

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"At the time the defendant pulled the trigger, he did not have a DNA test in his hand," Kiray said, pointing out how it was only revealed recently that Smith wasn't actually the father of Short's child. "Karli was ready to trumpet his name as the father of that unborn child."

Smith was dating a new woman, and she had just met his parents days before the shooting, prosecutors added. The defendant thus had a "clear motive" as "the walls were closing in" and he "did not want the double life he was living to be exposed."

Man gunned down pregnant lover behind her home because he had a new girlfriend: Prosecutor

A trial is underway in the case of a man who allegedly gunned down his lover when he believed she was carrying his child and could ruin his new relationship.

lawandcrime.com