Keanan Turner and Ebony Wright were together in a relationship when Wright became pregnant with her first child. While this may have been cause for celebration for some couples, it wasn’t for Turner, who asked Wright to get an abortion.
When Wright decided that she wanted to keep the baby, Turner stopped speaking to her entirely, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Columbia.
This led to Wright filing a custody and child support lawsuit against Turner, to get full custody of her baby while still receiving support from Turner. After he was served the lawsuit, he reached out to Wright to meet his child for the first time.
On April 12, 2021, he finally did, meeting Wright, her mother Wanda Wright, her sister, and the child at his baby mother’s apartment in Maryland.
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After meeting with the family for nearly an hour, the defendant took out a gun and shot Ebony Wright in the head. He then shot Wanda Wright in the back of the head. He then went into the back bedroom, where the sister was located, and shot her once in the face. Prior to leaving the apartment, the defendant lit the custody paperwork on fire in an attempt to kill the child. As he was running out of the apartment, the defendant attempted to remove a Ring camera on the front door and, in doing so, exposed a unique tattoo on his arm.
Despite being shot in the face, Wright’s sister survived and was able to rescue the baby from the apartment and call emergency services.
Last week, Turner learned his fate in a Superior Court for the District of Columbia. He was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder while armed with aggravated circumstances, assault with intent to kill while armed, aggravated assault while armed, attempted first-degree murder of a minor, second-degree cruelty to children, arson, and destruction of property. He was also found guilty of four counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence and carrying a pistol without a license, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Columbia.
Turner’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for October 14, 2024. He faces life in prison.