26 Year Old N-Kya Rebecca Logan Found Dead After Being Stabbed and Set on Fire Days After Baby Shower → Her Older Brother in Custody

Two days before her body was found burning in a Fresno alley, N-Kya Rebecca Logan was having a baby shower. The 26-year-old was about 36 weeks pregnant with a boy, whom she planned to name Noah. But authorities said, that future for mother and son was wiped out in a grisly killing at the hands of her brother. Aaron Jamal Dudley, 41, was arrested in connection with the killing, accused of stabbing Logan to death before taking her body to an alley and setting it on fire, Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama said at a news conference with Dist. Atty. Lisa Smittcamp and other officials.

“This is a person who had the wherewithal to try to clean up the evidence, try to dispose of the body, ran when police came to knock on the door to see what was going on,” Balderrama said. “This is not somebody who does not know what he’s doing.” Authorities said they believe Logan and her unborn child died of stab wounds, but released few other details. Asked what type of weapon was used, Balderrama said “an edged weapon such as a knife,” but he declined to specify. Smittcamp said her office intends to charge Dudley with two counts of murder with special circumstances, which could make him subject to the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole. “A third-party killing of a fetus with [premeditation] is murder as long as it can be shown that the fetus had progressed beyond the embryonic stage,” she said. A fetus’ viability outside of the womb “is not an element of the crime in order to prove a fetal murder,” Smittcamp said.

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