A man accused of killing a convenience store clerk and leading authorities to the decomposing remains of his pregnant girlfriend was found to be not competent to stand trial.
A man accused of killing a convenience store clerk and leading authorities to the decomposing remains of his pregnant girlfriend was found to be not competent to stand trial.
Accused Killer Found Mentally Unfit to Stand Trial
On Monday, Dec. 19, Montgomery County State Attorney John McCarthy
released a statement from the doctor who conducted the competency exam in determining Moore and indicated that he is “a danger to others nor himself if he was set free into the community.”
The Statements of Montgomery County Police
According to Montgomery County Police, on Dec. 8 at 3:03 p.m., officers were called to the Dash In Convenience Store at the Shell gas station on the New Hampshire Avenue 11100 block about a shooting incident. Upon arriving, they found Wondimu suffering from a fatal gunshot wound. Investigators found Moore allegedly went to the convenience store and got into a fight with Wondimu, which leads Moore reportedly pull out a gun and shoot him.
Furthermore, Homicide detectives went to Moore’s apartment, which was across the street from the gas station, and executed a search warrant. Surprisingly found the human remain of his pregnant girlfriend “in an advanced stage of decomposition.”
Montgomery County Police later identified the woman as 26-year-old Denise Middleton 38 weeks pregnant, and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined her baby boy “would have lived had Middleton delivered at that time.”
Moore was detained on charges of first-degree murder for Middleton, first-degree for the loss of an unborn baby, and crime of violence against a pregnant woman. An autopsy report it was determined that Middleton “had been gunshot several times.”
