Family and friends of 26-year-old India Kinamore were present for the arraignments of two of the men who are charged with killing her and her unborn baby in 2023.
“It’s just starting all over again, like I just got the news again,” India’s mother, Terri Kinamore, said in an interview.
Robert Ervin, 20, and Kayvon Warren, 30, have each been charged with two counts of murder. Each is being held on $600,000 bonds, which were set during an arraignment Aug. 22 in Hamilton County Municipal Court. If the men do post bond, they will be released with an ankle monitor.
Terri Kinamore said the bond amounts are not enough. She said Ervin and Warren should have gotten no bond.
“My daughter can’t come back,” Kinamore said. “I just don’t think it’s fair, at all.”
Ervin and Warren were arrested Aug. 21. Colerain police announced that both men, along with 22-year-old Lamar Morris Suggs, had been charged in the deaths of India and her unborn child.
Suggs is currently serving a sentence in an Ohio prison for unrelated charges and has not yet appeared in Hamilton County.
Prosecutor says suspect wanted to end girlfriend’s pregnancy
At the arraignment, Assistant Prosecutor David Hickenlooper said Warren was in a relationship with India. He added that evidence shows Warren had wanted her to terminate the pregnancy. Hickenlooper said India was scheduled to give birth through induced labor on the day she died.
Hickenlooper said evidence includes electronic communication between the three men, in which the men planned the killing of India and her unborn child.
Ervin’s attorney Robert Jones said his client “has no ties to this case,” and “no ties to the deceased” besides the fact he was in a group chat with Warren and Suggs.
6-year-old found his mother shot
Hickenlooper responded by saying that Ervin was instrumental in the murders, and evidence includes Ervin’s cellphone location, as well as texts with Warren until about 3:40 a.m. the day of the killings.
India was found fatally shot on March 4, 2023, at a home on Hidden Meadows Drive in Colerain Township.
In a statement in court, Kinamore said India’s then-6-year-old son was in the home when his mom was shot. Kinamore said the boy was the one who called her about the incident. She said she remembers her grandson telling her, “My mommy has been shot.”
A grand jury is scheduled to hear the case on or before Sep. 2.
Enquirer reporters Hailey Roden and Quinlan Bentley contributed to this report.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: ‘My daughter can’t come back.’ Man charged with murder of pregnant woman he was dating
Reporting by Gillian Stawiszynski, Cincinnati Enquirer / Cincinnati Enquirer
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