Family says murder victim was pregnant
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Family says murder victim was pregnant 
08:17 PM EDT on Friday, July 10, 2009
By GLENN COUNTS / NewsChannel 36
E-mail Glenn: GCounts@WCNC.com
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CHARLOTTE, N.C.– Yumeka Caldwell made a desperate call for help shortly after 2:15 Friday morning. She was afraid that her boyfriend Antonio Phifer would kill her.
Kanisha Hames was her best friend, "I don’t know what he was mad for, he was just making threats he says he was going to kill her grandma, granddad and her kids".
Hames was in the Barrington Road apartment when Phifer broke in."He was banging on the door then he kicked it in I tried to run out the back door with the baby then he says where the @#$%^& she at, where she at".
A few moments before, two police officers were on the scene.
Caldwell spotted Phifer’s car leaving the parking lot and so the officers pursued it.
Captain Johnny Jennings is the commander of the North Tryon Division and says, "We want to catch the suspect as quickly as possible and that’s what the officer’s intent was when they went after the vehicle."
Turns out Phifer wasn’t in the car.
Police have not said who dropped him off, but Caldwell’s family believes it was Phifer’s sister.
The family feels one officer should have stayed behind.
The department says that’s not practical when they are dealing with an armed suspect.
"We can’t leave one officer to deal with a situation like that two officers there, it really doesn’t make sense to leave an officer at any one location given the danger and the heightened awareness of a call like this," says Capt. Jennings.
Hames just misses her friend, and can barely talk about it without crying. "I was just trying to get the kid…. that was my friend,” says Hames.
Police have not finished their investigation, and there is no word on whether the person who dropped off Phifer is in any trouble.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/crime_safety/story/1604332.html
Deaths were murder-suicide, police say
The Associated Press
Published: Sun, Jul. 12, 2009 05:19AM
Modified Sun, Jul. 12, 2009 05:19AM
CHARLOTTE — Authorities say a pregnant woman was shot and killed by the father of her unborn child, who then turned the gun on himself.
Multiple media outlets said Yumeka Caldwell, 21, died in her apartment not long after Charlotte-Mecklenburg police arrived to investigate a complaint from her Friday morning to the effect that she had received a threatening phone call from Antonio Phifer.
Police spokesman Robert Fey said officers saw Phifer outside the building and gave chase.
They then followed a car that Phifer had been known to travel in.
They stopped that vehicle, but Phifer was not inside.
Soon after that, dispatchers received a call from Caldwell’s neighbors saying that they had heard several gunshots.
Officers returned to the apartment and found the bodies.
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