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Updated: 6:37 PM Jul 2, 2008
Murder Charges Brought In Twins Death
The district attorney says the two babies were born alive, shortly after their mother was shot in Warsaw.
Posted: 6:25 PM Jul 2, 2008 |
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The Duplin County district attorney this afternoon filed two murder charges in the death of twins killed when their pregnant mother was shot.
Gregory Chapman now faced two open counts of murder and is being held without bond.
D.A. Dewey Hudson says he obtained the birth certificates for the twins today from Pitt County Memorial Hospital. Hudson says the doctor told him the babies were born and then died.
Lisa Wallace was 5 months pregnant when she was shot in Warsaw. She immediately went into labor and the twins were born.
In North Carolina, a fetus must actually take a breath before murder charges can be filed.
Chapman, who was arrested in New York last week, will have a first court appearance Thursday morning.
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Posted by: k
Location: g
on Jul 3, 2008 at 04:00 PM
i understand that in order to keep abortion legal, we cant charge someone with murdering a 'fetus', however, just like it is the law for women to have a choice, i think women should have a choice whether or not to consider the lives of their unborn children as valuable (perhaps having a waiver signed in the case of an abortion). it is unfair for those who do not wish to abort their child but lose a fetus due to an assault or an accident not to be able to get justice for their loss. i am glad their are going to be murder charges in this case! but most of all, as the mother of twins my heart goes out FULLY to this mother, and has been since i heard the story on the news.
Posted by: Ang
Location: Northampton County
on Jul 3, 2008 at 10:42 AM
Anyone against the death penalty should take a long look at this crime. I agree with Keith "no trial needed".
Posted by: Liza
Location: NC
on Jul 3, 2008 at 06:46 AM
I agree! It was murder either way. I believe they were "real live babies" before they were born. I understand "the law" does not see it that way. Who makes the laws like that? Is it people WE elect?
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