A man shot and killed a pregnant woman who “was always against him.”

From left: Sheila Kurtz (Ever Loved, Inc.). Right: Emmett K. Williams (Jackson County Detention Center).

AND missouri a person will spend decades behind bars shooting and killing a pregnant mother and her unborn child.

On Tuesday, 35-year-old Emmett K. Williams was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the death of 22-year-old Sheila Curts and her unborn child. In June, he pleaded guilty to murder and armed robbery.

The murder happened around 8 p.m. on December 6, 2022.

Police were dispatched to the 4900 block of Bellefontaine Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri for a report of a shooting. complaint.

There, police found Kurtz dead on a couch with a bullet wound to the head. Law enforcement officers found a 9-mm shell casing from a Luger projectile nearby on the floor.

A witness told police that Williams came to his home to hang out upstairs in his bedroom. That witness, another witness and Curts were also in that bedroom with Williams, the complaint said. The witness told police that Curts went downstairs into the living room and “about five minutes later, Williams told (the witness) he was leaving.”

About a minute later, the witness told investigators he heard a single gunshot.

“(The witness) went downstairs and found the victim deceased with his front door open,” the complaint states. The witness reportedly looked out into the street and “saw someone running north,” the complaint states.

The witness could not explain the violence.

“(The witness) stated that there was never any altercation between Williams and the victim during the night,” the complaint states.

At about 4:15 the next morning, Williams called 911 saying he had shot someone and wanted to surrender.

At the police station, he told investigators that he had known the victim for four years and that they saw each other from time to time.

He said she was “always unfriendly,” calling him a “b–” and using feminine terms for his genitalia, the complaint said.

Williams said her words usually didn’t affect him, but he had recently experienced the loss of several family members and was not “managing those emotions well,” court documents state.

“Williams believed that this, along with his own mental health issues and illegal drug use, caused him to ‘snap,'” the document states.

Williams described the shooting, saying she was sitting downstairs on the living room couch when he came down. As he walked past her, he pulled his weapon from a holster on his hip and shot her in the head before walking out the front door and outside, according to the complaint he told investigators.

Williams said when he arrived in a wooded area, he fell into a ravine and lost his gun, backpack and cell phone. He later took investigators there, and the police found physical evidence after a search, including a gun.

Kurtz left behind two daughters. She named her unborn child Solei, her the obituary said.

“She lit up every room she entered with her charismatic free spirit and eclectic personality,” the obituary said. “She had a comical and lively sense of humor, she made fun of any situation. She made her friends and family laugh every day. She gave, loved and cared for everyone she met! She often helped people she didn’t even know. Shayla will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her. Her friends and family will cherish her memory for all the wonderful memories she left behind.”