The 22-year-old Navy sailor accused of shooting and killing the mother of his child Sunday after the child’s death the day before is in a medically-induced coma after shooting himself in the head and has the “slimmest of chances” of ever waking up, according to court documents on the tragic case that unfolded on Magnolia Chase Way in Virginia Beach over the weekend.
Quentell Lawrence appeared in front of the magistrate Wednesday via video from his hospital bed where he was intubated and unresponsive. Authorities were seeking charges of second-degree murder using a firearm in commission of a felony in the death of Natasha Forbes, 22, also a sailor, the day after their child died at an area hospital. His condition makes the future of those charges unclear.
[note: We have made a clarification to the above paragraph. Lawrence has not been arraigned due to his condition.]…