Authorities in Florida said they have arrested a 17-year-old boy after he killed a pregnant 16-year-old girl who was reported missing.
Orange County deputies said 17-year-old Lorenzo Larry is charged with second-degree murder after the death of De’Shayla Ferguson.
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Ferguson was found shot to death in Pine Hills on October 24.
Deputies said Ferguson was pregnant at the time of her death and Larry is also charged with the killing of an unborn child by injury to the mother.
Investigators said Ferguson was 20 weeks pregnant when she was murdered.
She was also a runaway who had been missing for nearly two months before her death, deputies said.
Ferguson had been out of school for more than a year by the time she went missing. The Orange County School District said she went to Edgewater High School for a short time.
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