Teryn Johnson of Philadelphia was 17 when she was fatally shot in 2022, allegedly at the behest of her boyfriend. She was also nine weeks pregnant. Now, a judge has ordered that a case against Johnson’s alleged killers can proceed on two counts of murder — for the deaths of both Johnson and her preborn child.
When Johnson’s boyfriend, 20-year-old Halim Evans, learned of her pregnancy, the first thing he mentioned was abortion.
“We gotta get the abortion jawn,” he texted her in July 2022.