Junior Joseph shot his pregnant gf, baby delivered

[Jaded]

A baby delivered prematurely as a result of the mother's fatal shooting Friday was fighting for life early today, police said.

Junior Joseph, 20, the boyfriend of victim Lourdine Faustin, 21, was arrested on charges of murder, attempted murder of a law-enforcement officer and carrying a concealed firearm, said Sgt. Barbara Jones, an Orlando police spokeswoman.

Police responded about 12:25 p.m. Friday to Faustin's home on Jacobs Place, south of downtown Orlando, to arrest Joseph on charges of aggravated battery on a pregnant woman and aggravated assault with a firearm, both domestic-violence charges, they said.

They caught up with Joseph four hours later when they received a report of a shooting at the home. Faustin, who was six to eight months pregnant, died at Orlando Regional Medical Center a little before 6 p.m., police said.

Her baby, whose gender was not disclosed, was fighting for survival. The couple also have a 1-year-old boy, Jones said.

Joseph was found several blocks from the shooting scene. Jones said he pointed a gun at an officer and pulled the trigger, but the weapon misfired. The officer, whose name was not made public, suffered a knee injury, will require surgery and is expected be off the street for several months.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-p...,1048299.story

[~Absynthe~]

A family member said Faustin was hunted down by Joseph.

"He was planning to do that to my sister because they told me he came here three times to look if my parents were here before he did that," Frenteline Faustin said.

http://www.local6.com/firstnews/16540748/detail.html

[SqueakyClean]

Something tells me this isn't the first time this asswipe has been violent... why why WHY do women choose to make babies with such assholes? Give me a gentle, good-natured, slightly nerdy (hi honey if you're reading this!) guy ANY day.

I don't get it. At all. And I feel sorry as hell for both those kids.

[w8ng4msrgt]

They should have had a bigger gun.

[~Absynthe~]

“I catch the bus home with him every morning. I got off the bus at the store, by the time i come from the store he had come around here and killed this girl, when I got home everybody was screaming and hollering he had come and killed her then.”

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/myfox/pa...Y&pageId=1.1.1