According to authorities an Indiana man is currently behind bars for shooting his estranged wife in the back when she was five months pregnant.
The act caused serious injuries to her and killed the unborn child.
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The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department arrived at about six o’clock in the evening on Sunday. The shooting took place in the 700 block of East Pleasant Run Parkway.
When police arrived they found Kayla Netherland 25 the victim in the restroom with gunshot wounds. She was quickly taken to the hospital by paramedics.
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Although doctors managed to stabilize her condition, they could not save the child.
According to a probable cause arrest affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, at the time of the shooting, one of Netherland’s friends had come to the home to do laundry and entered the premises.
She reportedly observed Netherland’s estranged husband, 36-year-old Jeremy McBride, standing over her body.
McBride glanced at the friend and simply walked out the front door without uttering a word, as noted by police. The friend informed authorities that she believed McBride was responsible for Netherland’s death.
Utilizing license plate readers, officers successfully tracked down McBride and initiated a traffic stop.
McBride got out of the car, which rolled away because it wasn’t in park and hit a pole, authorities said.
He allegedly told the officer, “I was going to turn myself into the police station,” and said the gun in question was in the car. He then allegedly asked, “is she ok?” In the car, police allegedly recovered the gun and handwritten notes to his estranged wife discussing their relationship.
“McBride wrote to [Netherland] of his frustrations with her infidelity, his frustrations with their failed relationship, his anger & insecurities which led him to mistreat others, his belief that he has not ‘molded’ himself into an individual [she] would want to have children with, and that he had wanted children with her,” detectives wrote.
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Post Miranda, the defendant told detectives he was upset that while they hadn’t gotten divorced “yet she had gotten pregnant” by another man, according to the affidavit.
The marriage hadn’t been going well, and they had separated in September, but he hoped they could get back together.
“Maybe she will come back one day, but not for me. But in many ways, I killed her,” McBride allegedly wrote.
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He purportedly purchased a firearm and ammunition just days prior to the shooting, intending to kill her, the baby and himself.
McBride stated that he and Netherland had been spending time together on Sunday, engaging in shopping at Goodwill before returning to her residence to relax.
They were conversing with her in the bathroom while he sat on the bed, according to the affidavit. However, the circumstances surrounding their interactions remain complex.
Although they seemed to be enjoying each other’s company, this does not negate the tragic events that unfolded.
He reportedly said shooting her “made sense in that moment,” so he fired five shots into her back. She never saw him shoot, he said.
“Certainly what is alleged is this person went to great lengths to carry out what he intended to do,” Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears told local Fox affiliate WXIN .
