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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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To: Eccl 10:2

Thanks. I know how to do it. I made a goof on the tag and forgot to do a Preview. My mistake.


21 posted on 04/28/2025 10:38:06 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

A frog is a boy, a housefly is a pig, a bear is a lion, a fetus is a clump of cells, a pregnant mom is a giraffe...if they can kill newborns why not pregnant moms? Same thing. Right?...

Another deep fail in the game of lust and human degradation...


22 posted on 04/28/2025 10:39:09 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
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To: DCBryan1

He may have been a DEI officer but he definitely is not a “gentleman.”


23 posted on 04/28/2025 10:42:48 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Morgana

Well, he saved us all a lot of time and money.


24 posted on 04/28/2025 10:44:17 AM PDT by vpintheak (Screw the ChiComms! America first!)
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To: Morgana
Not the brightest chap was he ? Knocks girlfriend up, she must die as she refused to kill the baby.

Willing to bet she wasn’t the only woman he was servicing , he certainly did not cherish her or the child .

Perhaps prison will suit him, a lot of similarly evil people there, he’ll be amongst people with the same disregard for life.

25 posted on 04/28/2025 10:49:44 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: Morgana

She picked a winner.


26 posted on 04/28/2025 10:53:11 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; Eccl 10:2
I always post with a specific width in pixels, not a percent which can vary the output wildly depending on the resolution of the original image. So If I post the image as follows with the width in pixels stated explicitly:

The image looks like this:

It is my experience that you don't want to go much more than 500-600 pixels wide, as that will cause most people's browsers to require scrolling sideways or increasing the window to see it, depending on their screen resolution.

27 posted on 04/28/2025 10:55:20 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: rlmorel

I originally used width in pixels but read that it caused problems on devices with different available pixel widths. The percentage seemed to be a good way to avoid that problem.


28 posted on 04/28/2025 10:57:16 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
The Village People can update their hit song:

"In DEI Navy"

sorry

okay, not really sorry.

29 posted on 04/28/2025 11:03:10 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too. 😁 " - Robert Conquest )
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To: monkeyshine

That’s what I thought when I read the headline also...


30 posted on 04/28/2025 11:06:09 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That could be. I may well misunderstand the concept of using a width percentage.

I assumed that if an image is 1000 pixels wide, when posting it with a “width=50%” tag, that it would post an image 500 pixels wide.

And a 2000 pixel image would display as an image 1000 pixels wide. It didn’t occur to me that it would be otherwise.

I will have to look now. Thanks for the correction.


31 posted on 04/28/2025 11:12:47 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: Morgana

“U.S. Navy officer found guilty of murdering pregnant girlfriend found dead in Hanover”

U.S. Navy officer ... found dead in Hanover

GOOD! We’ll save money on the trial and incarceration. /s

UURINALISTS strike again. Do they not read their own headlines?

The all-important “comma” or missing “comma” as in the 2nd amendment.


32 posted on 04/28/2025 11:23:23 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Morgana

“U.S. Navy officer found guilty of murdering pregnant girlfriend found dead in Hanover”

U.S. Navy officer ... found dead in Hanover

GOOD! We’ll save money on the trial and incarceration. /s

UURINALISTS strike again. Do they not read their own headlines?

The all-important “comma” or missing “comma” as in the 2nd amendment.


33 posted on 04/28/2025 11:23:23 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Morgana

Yep Boo Boo, its THEM!


34 posted on 04/28/2025 11:24:03 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: DCBryan1

Isn’t this the plot of Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy?

Written in 1925?

I don’t believe any of THEM were involved in the plot at that time. Kind of a universal theme.


35 posted on 04/28/2025 11:30:44 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: rlmorel

the advantage of using a width percentage instead of a fixed pixel amount is that the pic size displayed will adjust to the width of the display, whether monitor or cell phone, horizontally held or vertically held.

50% or 75% usually works well, depending on the relative height of the pic


36 posted on 04/28/2025 11:32:20 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: ProtectOurFreedom

DEI officer at work. At least he looks like “us”.


37 posted on 04/28/2025 11:32:43 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Morgana
The victim, later identified as King, had a single gunshot wound.

So many questions left unanswered in the article.
Was the weapon found at the scene?
If it was found at the scene was it his or could somebody, possibly, like a family member of friend getting their own justice plant it on him?

Nobody heard the shot?
Why was he out on bond? (question the judge's decision)
Many more questions, but I'll stop there.

Dear writer - when you do slipshod reporting you leave minds open to dubious speculation.

38 posted on 04/28/2025 11:41:26 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Morgana

Most importantly, was the fatal wound to the head or the heart?


39 posted on 04/28/2025 11:42:29 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: rlmorel

The image width scales dynamically based on the “parent container’s” width. For example, width = “50%” makes the image half the width of its container. If the container’s width changes (e.g., due to browser resizing or responsive design), the image width adjusts proportionally. You can try this by resizing your browsers window.

Here’s another handy feature. If the “container” is a table cell, the width of the image will change to fit the table cell width. You can use this to make a table with an image the full width of a cell and another cell below or to the right for a caption some text

Using the Width attribute as a percentage, the aspect ratio is preserved unless overridden by another (e.g., height).

More than you wanted to know, I’m sure!


40 posted on 04/28/2025 11:46:01 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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