The MontcoPA DA says two people are charged with first-degree murder in the killing of a mother in front of her son as they waited in a Dunkin' drive-thru earlier this month. Authorities say the Cheltenham Township murder was fueled by jealousy.
King and her son, Jalen, were sitting inside her Ford Edge in the drive-thru of the Dunkin’ at the Melrose Shopping Center on Cheltenham Avenue in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, on the morning of April 11 when someone opened fire.
"She was filled with enough hatred to have Rachel killed," Steele said of Jean during Wednesday's news conference."He's carrying a picture of my sister around. Won't let it go," Allen King, the boy’s uncle and victim’s brother,“She was taking Jalen to his violin lesson. That’s before school,” Allen King said. “And they stopped at Dunkin’ Donuts.”
Steele said the gunman never tried to open the door of King’s vehicle nor did he appear to speak with her prior to the shooting. Police recovered six fired bullet casings outside King's car.On Wednesday, Steele said that King's longtime boyfriend had an affair with Jean last year, but later broke it off and reconciled with King. Jean continued to harass both King and the man by text messages and calls, prompting the man to get a protection from abuse order against Jean, Steele said.
A search into the suspects' cellphones showed that contact between the two had been deleted. Jean deleted 787 texts just 13 minutes before detectives interviewed her on April 12, the DA's office said. As police tried to stop the driver, he fled at a high rate of speed before crashing into a fence along 16th Street, Steele said.
Jean was arrested on Monday and later arraigned on first-degree murder and related counts and held without bail, according to court records, which don't list an attorney who could comment on her behalf.
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