Ohio – Two Ohio men, 28-year-old J. Scot and 37-year-old P. Jambes, were both found guilty of aggravated murder, aggravated burgIary, tampering with evidence, feIonious assauIt, and related charges in the killing of 34-year-old Tamisha and her unborn chiId, Ohio prosecutors confirmed.
The convictions include two counts of aggravated murder, as well as multiple felony counts related to the violent altercation and subsequent cover-up. The jury reached its verdict on Wednesday, roughly a year and a half after the fatal shooting in January last year.
According to court filings and prosecuting attorney statements, the investigation began when police were called to the victim’s residence in Ohio following reports of a shooting. Officers discovered the victim in her bedroom with multiple gunshot wounds and pronounced her dead at the scene. The County Coroner later confirmed she was pregnant and that the unborn child had also died, ruling the death a homicide caused by complications from the maternal gunshot wounds.
Detectives quickly identified the older defendant, who is the father of the victim’s unborn child, as a suspect. CeII phone data, video surveillance, witness statements, and messages between the defendant and the victim showed that he was involved in a custody and paternity dispute, and that he had pressured her to have an abortion before ultimately deciding against it.
Prosecutors presented evidence indicating that he planned the shooting. During the crime, the 27-year-old defendant is alleged to have helped him force entry into the victim’s home and assisted in executing the plan before attempting to hide the weapon and other incriminating evidence.
Ohio authorities recovered the firearm used in the shooting, traced through cell phone pings and GPS data that showed the men traveling to dispose of the weapon after the crime. Police also seized phones, text messages, and surveillance footage that tied the timeline of the murder to the defendants’ movements .
When officers located the defendant later that morning, he acknowledged being at the scene of the shooting but denied involvement in the kiIIing. The 27-year-old accomplice was apprehended separately and questioned in connection with the break-in and subsequent disposal of evidence. He reportedly implicated his co-defendant’s paternity dispute as the primary motive and indicated that the shooting was premeditated .
In court, prosecutors painted a detailed portrait of premeditation, noting messages in which the 37-year-old man expressed uncertainty about the paternity and showed ambivalence toward carrying the pregnancy to term. The defense did not dispute that both defendants were present but sought to downplay the level of planning. The jury, however, sided with the prosecution, finding both men guilty on all charges.
According to warrants obtained by local news outlet WTVG, the defendant told investigators he was disputing his potential paternity of the child. During the trial, prosecutors introduced messages between the defendant and the victim in which he also denied being the father and urged her to have an abortion. Other messages reportedly showed that the defendant said he would provide financial support for the baby. Per reports, the victim was eight months pregnant and just weeks from giving birth.
A third person, Jambes’s girIfriend, who was also pregnant at the time of the shooting, has been charged with obstruction of justice for lying about his whereabouts during the shooting.
Sentencing for both defendants is scheduled for July 28. Both face life sentences under Ohio law, with additional years possible for burglary and evidence tampering. The court will determine whether their sentences run concurrently or consecutively.