Miracle Will Have Life Long Complications After Kaiheem Williams Shot & Killed Her Mother

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A Lansdowne man who shot and killed his pregnant girlfriend in 2024 was sentenced to 22 to 44 years in prison during a hearing fraught with emotion Thursday afternoon.

Kaiheem J. Williams, 20, was convicted of third-degree murder for the death of Taniyah Bell on Nov. 14, 2024, just two days after her 19th birthday. He was also convicted on aggravated assault of an unborn child and possession of an instrument of crime.

The jury deliberated for about six hours before rendering a verdict that acquitted Williams of first-degree murder and attempted murder of an unborn child.

The child, named for her mother with the middle name “Miracle,” survived the shooting, but was deprived of oxygen for 30 minutes and continues to suffer severe neurological issues and other health problems, her grandmother Tylicia Bell told Common Pleas Court Judge Margaret Amoroso.

According to testimony at trial in April:

Yeadon Officer Matthew O’Donnell said he responded to the apartments at about 7:40 p.m. for a 911 call of a pregnant woman shot that had come in about 7:33 p.m.


Jurors watched bodycam footage of officers arriving and being let into the apartment by Williams, who was taken out to a hallway and questioned about the location of the firearm.

“I don’t have no firearm,” he responded. “She had my f… gun!”

When pressed on where the gun was, Williams told police, “That’s y’all job to figure out.”

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“I didn’t want that to happen,” he told the jury. “That’s the last thing I wanted to happen. I don’t understand how I could have let that happen. It wasn’t supposed to happen at all.”

On cross-examination by Assistant District Attorney Danielle Gallaher, Williams refused to concede that Bell was having any kind of interaction with him after she was shot was medically impossible.

Friends and family of the victim described her Thursday as a bright, generous and loving person with her whole life ahead of her. They said she was looking forward to motherhood and planned to become a nurse in the natal intensive care unit, where her own daughter spent the first 10 months of her life.

Miracle now requires 24-hour care and her friends said they have to carry the weight of her passing every day.

Many commented that they saw no remorse from Williams at trial as he laughed, smiled and lied on the stand, at one point counting on his hand all of the times he had cheated on Bell.

“Our family will carry this pain forever,” Tylicia Bell told the judge. “I ask for no mercy because he showed no empathy to my daughter and granddaughter.”

Williams gave a statement that was sometimes rambling and included what appeared to be a poem about how much he misses Bell and his daughter. His words at times were unintelligible as he broke down crying.

Williams reiterated that he did not intend to shoot Bell and said that he chose not to take a plea deal because it would have been “selfish” to do so.

Williams also said that he had given Miracle a different name from the show “Avatar, the Last Airbender,” which he and Bell had watched together, and asked that the judge give him the maximum penalty for his crimes.

Amoroso said she would not give him the maximum, but that her sentence included a significant punishment for his actions, though she did believe he was remorseful.


The judge added that she hoped her sentence gave some measure of solace to the friends and family of an obviously loved and cherished person who was unfairly taken from them too soon.

In addition to prison time, Williams was ordered to serve two yeas of consecutive probation and provide a DNA sample to state police. He is not eligible for early release, but was given credit for time served since his arrest on the night of the shooting.

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Man who killed pregnant girlfriend gets 22 to 44 years

The daughter survived, but requires round-the-clock care and is likely to have lifelong medical issues.

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