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U.S. Navy officer found guilty of murdering pregnant girlfriend found dead in Hanover
WRIC ^ | April 23, 2025 | Ryan Nadeau

Posted on 04/28/2025 9:26:21 AM PDT by Morgana

HANOVER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A U.S. Navy officer was found guilty of killing his pregnant girlfriend in 2022 after she refused to get an abortion.

On Wednesday, April 23, 27-year-old Emmanuel Coble of Hampton was found guilty in Hanover County Circuit Court on all five charges he faced in the murder of 20-year-old Raquiah King of Hampton, who was shot and killed in July 2022, according to Mackenzie Babichenko, the Hanover County Commonwealth’s Attorney.

King’s death also resulted in the loss of her pregnancy, which was about 12 weeks along.

On July 21, 2022, a deputy with the Hanover County Sheriff’s Office was called to the area of Greenwood and Winns Church roads after a caller reported they’d found a body in some brush. The victim, later identified as King, had a single gunshot wound.

Then-27-year-old Coble, a junior grade lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, was charged in connection with her murder on Aug. 18, 2022.

Court documents reviewed by 8News revealed that, shortly before King was murdered, she and Coble were having “domestic issues” because Coble “did not want to be a father to [her] baby.” King’s mother, Rachel Pender, said her daughter had told her that “if something was to happen to her, [Coble] was responsible.”

The day before her body was found, Coble reportedly took King to an abortion clinic in Virginia Beach. Per court documents, she refused the procedure.

As said above, Coble was found guilty on all charges, which included 1st-degree murder, murdering a pregnant woman with the intent to terminate pregnancy, the premeditated killing of the fetus of another, concealing a dead body and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

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TOPICS: Local News; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: abortion; donate2freerepublic; forcedabortion; forcedabortions; murder; navy; navyofficer; plannedparenthood; prolife; virginia
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"found guilty of killing his pregnant girlfriend in 2022 after she refused to get an abortion."
1 posted on 04/28/2025 9:26:21 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana
Didn't even need to look:


2 posted on 04/28/2025 9:30:34 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
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To: Morgana
What an evil monster. I feel so sorry for the cute girl and her family.

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3 posted on 04/28/2025 9:30:34 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: Morgana

Another dead pregnant mother. Chalk this one up to the DNC’s “Planned Parenthood” squawd.


4 posted on 04/28/2025 9:31:50 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The U.S. "Judiciary. Putting Foreign Illegal Aliens Criminals first. They are here ILLEGALLY!)
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To: DCBryan1

It’s them again, Yogi.


5 posted on 04/28/2025 9:32:04 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: DCBryan1

We both posted the same picture at exactly the same time 9:30:34. I used the “width=”40%”>” tag but didn’t preview, so we both posted the same image at full size. What are the odds?


6 posted on 04/28/2025 9:32:11 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: Morgana

Unfortunately, I Suspected it before I saw the photo. So heartless.


7 posted on 04/28/2025 9:32:48 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The DNC is just pure unadulterated evil.


8 posted on 04/28/2025 9:32:52 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Morgana

The headline makes it sound like the Navy Officer was found dead.


9 posted on 04/28/2025 9:34:46 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Morgana

I wonder how he made officer?


10 posted on 04/28/2025 9:35:58 AM PDT by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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To: Blueflag

“I wonder how he made officer?”

DEI ?


11 posted on 04/28/2025 9:36:55 AM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 )
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To: DCBryan1; Morgana; Red Badger; SunkenCiv; BobL; PJ-Comix

Dead, lifeless, unfocused and (low interest/illiterate ?) eyes.

How the bloody Hades did he ever get a commission? Keep a commission - other than Obama-Biden-Harris DIE policies of discrimination and exclusion and intervention?


12 posted on 04/28/2025 9:38:00 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: DCBryan1

If Obama had a son....


13 posted on 04/28/2025 9:38:52 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Blueflag

....DEI hire, I reckon....when I was active duty Navy in the early 1960s, this sort of thing would have been unthinkable...but, times have changed, I guess....


14 posted on 04/28/2025 9:40:01 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: monkeyshine

U.S. Navy officer found guilty of murdering pregnant girlfriend.

There I fixed it. They don’t teach English anymore. not required for Journalism 101?


15 posted on 04/28/2025 9:41:55 AM PDT by dvan (Send Them Home!Napolatono)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"I used the “width=”40%”>” tag but didn’t preview"

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This format works:

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...and use whatever percent you desire

16 posted on 04/28/2025 9:43:12 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Morgana

This is so sad.

This reminds me of so many stories of girls feeling pressured to get an abortion. I’ve seen surveys of this, and many report others pressured then to abort.

And it’s not always boyfriends pushing abortion. Sometimes a girl’s family pressures them, saying they are too young, how hard single motherhood is ,etc.

What’s missing from such discussions, is the possibility of adopting out the baby, if a mother is truly incapable or unwilling to raise that child.

Yes, unplanned pregnancies happen, but adoption doesn’t seem to be on people’s minds, if motherhood is just out of the question for a particular woman.


17 posted on 04/28/2025 9:44:31 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

18 posted on 04/28/2025 9:50:04 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Robert A Cook PE

In my husband’s twenty years in the AF, we were friends and neighbors with quite a few black officers, including pilots.
This was back in the ‘60s and ‘70s, before caucasian people were demonized.


19 posted on 04/28/2025 10:03:27 AM PDT by Blueway
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To: monkeyshine

That is what I thought. Poor language skills


20 posted on 04/28/2025 10:07:28 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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