The man accused of killing
a 14-year-old Brooklyn teen did so because she allegedly told him she was
pregnant with his child and refused to have an abortion,
according to the New York Daily News.
Christian Ferdinand, 20,
admitted to killing Shaniesha Forbes, officials said. He is charged
with homicide by asphyxiation. Authorities arrested him in Maine.
Despite Ferdinand’s
pregnancy claims, the city’s medical examiner noted Forbes wasn’t pregnant at
the time of her death. His alleged words and the official findings set off
Forbes’ cousin.
“You had the courage and
the balls to kill her but you couldn’t go to the pharmacy to buy a pregnancy
test to find out if it was true?” Kerri Ann Thomas said in Brooklyn Federal
Court. “That makes no sense.”
