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Billy Bennett Adams III, 25, was arrested in Tampa, Florida, on February 8 on charges of killing his girlfriend who was five months pregnant at the time.
Adams, a semi-professional rapper known as Ace NH, faces charges of first-degree murder and the killing of an unborn child, Tampa Police Department said on the day of his arrest.
Adams allegedly gunned down his pregnant girlfriend, Alana Sims, 22, in front of her car while her 18-month-year-old slept inside it on January 30. Later that evening, Sims was discovered by a witness, thinking she was intoxicated lying on the ground. Another witness, who later alerted investigators, found Sims in a pool of blood with upper body trauma in the 10700 block of Pictorial Park Drive in New Tampa.
Court documents allege that Sims, who was five months pregnant, was one of two women Adams was dating, and she was getting in the way of his freedom—so he killed her. Law enforcement said that Adams lured Sims into the New Tampa neighborhood of Easton Park, telling her they were heading to a party to celebrate his acquittal of a double murder charge only 13 days earlier.