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• Sergio Colin-Gomez allegedly threatened the boy’s mother to confess to infidelity, authorities say• The suspect lived with the boy and his mother, but he was not the boy’s father• He had known the child for two years, per Santa Clara DA’s officeA California man has been arrested and charged with murder after the fatal shooting of his pregnant girlfriend’s 3-year-old son, authorities say.
Sergio Colin-Gomez, 24, was arrested after he allegedly shot the child, named Ivan, in the head while trying to force his girlfriend to confess to infidelity, the Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office said in astatementon Thursday.
Officers in Santa Clara, Calif., responded to a 911 call on Feb. 20 from a woman claiming her boyfriend had shot her child, according to the statement.
Colin-Gomez, who is not the father of the victim, returned to their shared home late in the evening on Feb. 19 when the woman and her child were watching television, authorities said in the statement.
The woman escaped into her son’s room and locked herself inside, fearing her boyfriend, according to the district attorney’s statement.
He allegedly broke down the door, briefly left and then returned with a gun, per the statement.
As he continued to allegedly threaten the woman, accusing her of infidelity and trying to force a confession out of her, he said, “Don’t be stupid,” per the statement.
As the woman reached for the gun in his hand, Colin-Gomez allegedly shot the child in the head from about a foot away and fled the scene, authorities said.
“We are sickened and heartbroken at the senseless murder of Ivan,” District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in the statement. “Nothing we achieve in court, no jury or judge, can make up for the lost life of this innocent child. We will sadly but steadfastly do our job to make sure this person will never harm another.”
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source: people.com
