‘Loving’ Pregnant Mom Was Run Over and Shot to Death. Then Ex Allegedly Called His Family to Confess

A pregnant Missouri mother of five was killed after being run over with a pickup truck and then shot more than 20 times. Her ex-boyfriend is now accused of her murder.

Police say Arel Dawkins, from Blue Springs, was arrested on Aug. 6 and charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of 42-year-old Braisen Cain.

Officers responded to a home on Morrell Avenue in Kansas City around 7:50 a.m. that day. They found Cain, a teacher and mother of five boys, lying on the ground with many gunshot wounds. She was pronounced dead at the scene…

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