An Illinois man is behind bars for the death of his pregnant girlfriend after he claimed he shot her when she grabbed the gun under his pillow while he was sleeping.
Robert Pasco III, 42, stands accused of involuntary manslaughter , child endangerment causing death and three counts of misdemeanor endangering a child in the deaths of 35-year-old Edith Castrejon and their child Jesus Castrejon who died a week after his birth.
Chicago police responded shortly before 5 a.m. Jan. 16 to 5800 block of W. Newport to a shooting. Paramedics found Castrejon, who was five months pregnant, suffering from a single gunshot wound to the chest. They rushed her to the hospital where doctors delivered her baby before she died. Given just a 25% chance to live, he died when he was 7 days old. The shooting occurred as their three other children, ages 3, 4 and 7, slept in the room, cops said. They were uninjured…