Top inset: India Kinamore (Walker Funeral Homes). Bottom insets, from left to right: Kayvon Warren, Robert Ervin and Lamar Morris Suggs (Colerain Police Department).
A pregnant woman in Ohio who was gunned down by her ex-boyfriend”s pals just hours before she was scheduled for induced labor was reportedly asleep when she was killed under orders from her former lover, according to prosecutors.
“India Kinamore was pregnant with … Warren’s baby, a baby he did not want, and was asleep when associates of co-defendant Warren’s drove to their home and came in and shot and killed Ms. Kinamore and their unborn child,” alleged Hamilton County prosecutors this week in court documents obtained by local Fox affiliate WXIX.
Kayvon Warren, 30, allegedly requested bereavement leave from his job before he enlisted his cousin, Robert Ervin, 20, and pal Lamar Morris Suggs, 22, to help kill India Kinamore, 26, on March 4, 2023, in Colerain Township. His charges include aggravated murder and burglary.
Prosecutors revealed in newly filed court documents that Kinamore was sleeping when she was killed.
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Warren, Ervin and Suggs are accused of staging Kinamore’s death to look like a burglary, with Warren allegedly being desperate for money and about to lose his home while being in a relationship with another woman, according to local CBS affiliate WKRC.
Prosecutors say Warren had asked her to terminate her pregnancy and she allegedly refused, instead choosing to keep the child. When the day came that she was scheduled to be induced — March 4, 2023 — Warren and his alleged accomplices set upon the mother-to-be while she was home with her 6-year-old son, who found her dying.
“This should have been one of the happiest days of India’s life,” Hamilton County Prosecutor Connie Pillich said in a statement announcing Warren’s charges, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer.
“Instead, the father of the child conspired with two others to kill her,” Pillich alleged. “It is heartbreaking. My office will see that justice is done for both India and her baby.”
Warren and the others were allegedly in a group chat together and spoke about meeting up that night to murder Kinamore and her unborn child before she could give birth later that day, according to prosecutors. Pillich said Warren’s alleged request for bereavement leave shows the premeditated nature of his crimes, per the Enquirer.
Officers responded to 2369 Hiddenmeadows Drive at around 4:40 a.m. the day Kinamore was killed and found her suffering from a fatal gunshot wound. Her 6-year-old son stumbled upon the expectant mother and called his grandmother, saying “My mommy has been shot,” according to family members.
The Colerain Township Police Department announced Warren’s arrest, along with the others, in a press release on Aug. 21.
Warren, Ervin and Suggs have each been charged with aggravated murder, felonious assault, and burglary. Suggs has been locked up in an Ohio prison for unrelated charges.
“I thought that Kayvon was a nice, upstanding gentleman and he turned out to be the complete opposite,” Terri Kinamore, India’s mother, told Fox affiliate WXIX. “A monster, because only a monster would do something like that.”
