A teenage boy has been charged with capturing and killing a pregnant 17-year-old and her unborn child whereas he was "taking part in" with a gun, police say.

Suspect Chad Blackard was arrested after sufferer Karrington Smith, additionally 17, was shot because the pair travelled in a automobile collectively simply after 6pm on Saturday (March 12) night.

Deputies had been known as to the scene on the 6100 block of Siegen Lane in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Blackard reportedly instructed police he was "taking part in together with his gun" when it by chance discharged, WAFB experiences.

The sufferer, who was 25 weeks pregnant, was rushed to the native hospital, however she and her little one later died, experiences WSMV.

Blackard was sitting behind the sufferer when he fired a single spherical from his semi-automatic handgun, hitting Smith in her again, in response to Casey Hicks, the spokeswoman for East Baton Rouge Sherriff's Workplace (EBRSO).

Blackard instructed deputies the gun "went off" as he was repositioning it, she added.

He has been booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Jail on a number of fees, together with negligent murder, third diploma feticide, and the unlawful use of weapons.

Newsweek has contacted EBRSO for extra data.

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A inventory photograph of police tape. A person has been arrested after a pregnant teenager was fatally shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Matt Rourke/AP Picture