A 32-year-old man in Texas will spend the remainder of his days behind bars for killing his 26-year-old pregnant girlfriend, shooting her in the back of the head only a few weeks after the couple held a gender reveal party for their soon-to-be twin boys, both of whom also died as a result of the shooting, records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

District Court Judge Robert P. Brotherton on Monday ordered Maurice Kelso Smith to serve a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2020 slayings of Darionne Burley and the unborn kids.

The sentence was formally handed down after a jury in Tarrant County found Smith guilty of capital murder in the fatal shooting. In capital murder cases where the state chooses not to pursue the death penalty, defendants convicted serve a mandatory life sentence without parole.

According to a report from Fort Worth, Texas, CBS affiliate KTVT, officers with the Mansfield Police Department on June 29, 2020, responded to a call regarding a woman who had been carjacked at gunpoint in the 1600 block of the North U.S. Highway 287 frontage road. The victim told the emergency dispatcher that the carjacker — later identified as Smith — had arrived in a different car, abandoned it, and then taken her car.

First responders made contact with the carjacking victim and then located the Honda Civic Smith had been driving before stealing the other woman’s car. Inside the Civic, police said they found Burley, who appeared to have suffered a gunshot wound to the back of her head, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

A 42-year-old mother in Florida accused of leaving her 3-year-old fraternal twins to die in the back seat of a car atop an interstate overpass before trying to kill herself by leaping to her death has been arrested over the tragic ordeal, which authorities said she had been planning for months.

Shirlene N. Alcime was formally charged this week with two counts of child neglect resulting in great bodily harm in the deaths of Milendhet and Milendhere Napoleon-Cadet, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

As previously reported by Law&Crime, officers with the Miami-Dade Police Department responded to a call at about 2 a.m. on Friday from a passerby who told the emergency dispatcher that they had found two children unresponsive.

“Upon the officers’ arrival, the female that was accompanying the children jumped over the expressway wall, fell from a considerable height, and landed on the railroad tracks,” police said in the release. “Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded and transported the toddlers to an area hospital and the female to HCA Florida Aventura Hospital in critical condition. Despite their efforts to save them, medical personnel pronounced both children deceased.”

Authorities said that a pending autopsy would determine the manner and cause of death for the two children. However, after Alcime was formally charged, she appeared in court for a bond hearing where a judge said that the evidence collected thus far indicated that Alcime was likely to be charged with murdering her children.

“I am holding you with no bond on count one, for the child abuse, count two for child abuse, although I think there may be a probable cause for murder as well, but that’s up to the state to file that charge,” Florida Circuit Court Judge Mindy S. Glazer said during Friday’s hearing, per courtroom footage posted online by Miami NBC affiliate WTVJ. “That arrest affidavit, it looks like you killed your children, and you then tried to kill yourself, so that’s why there may be probable cause for different charges, but it’s up to the state’s attorney.”