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Tamecca Perry was nine months pregnant. Her baby was due within the week.
But on March 5, a neighbor’s daughter started an argument with Perry over loud music and perceived disrespect, the FBI said.
The dispute escalated, and Perry was shot outside her Milwaukee home. After she retreated inside, the expectant mother died in front of her two children, the FBI said.
Her unborn child also died.
Police charged Shanika S. Minor, 24, in Perry’s death, but she hasn’t been seen since the day of Perry’s death.
On Tuesday, the FBI added Minor to its top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list, as authorities offered up to $100,000 for information directly leading to the Milwaukee woman’s arrest.
“The brutal murder of a mother and her unborn child is reprehensible,” Robert Shields, FBI Milwaukee Division special agent, said in a statement. “The FBI will provide all of our available resources to assist the Milwaukee Police Department in locating and apprehending this violent fugitive.”
“It’s important that a national … cry be raised” over the crime, Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Minor’s mother lived in the same duplex as Perry and told Minor about the neighbor playing loud music at unreasonable hours, according to the FBI.
About a week later, on March 5, Minor confronted Perry on the sidewalk, the FBI said. Minor brandished a handgun and challenged the pregnant woman — a former high school classmate — to a fight, the FBI said.
“Minor’s mother ran to the scene and implored her daughter not to hurt the pregnant woman,” the FBI said.
Minor fired a round into the air, got into her car and sped away with several other people, according to the FBI. “Most people who witnessed the incident thought that was the end of it,” FBI special agent Chad Piontek said in a statement.
Hours later — just before 3 a.m. on March 6 — Minor allegedly returned to the neighborhood and to the hallway near the back of Perry’s home. She confronted the pregnant woman once more, the FBI said.
“Minor’s mother again ran to the scene, this time positioning herself between her daughter and the neighbor, trying to keep the peace,” the FBI said in a news release. “Witnesses said Minor reached over her mother’s shoulder and fired her gun, striking the woman in the chest.”
Perry, fatally wounded, quickly retreated back into her house, where she and her unborn child died, the FBI said.
Police issued an arrest warrant for Minor, charging her with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide — one for Perry’s death, and one for her unborn child’s death.