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The Washington Post is reporting that a young Ashville, North Carolina mother who was found shot to death in a park alongside her severely-wounded son, was killed by her boyfriend because she refused his demands to have an abortion.
Candace Pickens, 23, was found by a jogger May 12. She had been shot in the head and her three-year-old son, Zachaeus, was found next to her, clinging to life.
Zachaeus is reportedly in critical but stable condition and has lost his left eye.
Nathaniel Elijah Dixon, 24, was arrested in Ohio and was charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and first-degree murder of an unborn child. He’s awaiting extradition back to North Carolina.
