A Florida woman who was arrested in July 2022 after she opened fire inside an Uber and killed a mother of three is asking to be released from the county jail for the sake of her unborn child.
Natalia Harrell, 24, reportedly shot and killed 28-year-old Gladys Yvette Borcela on July 24, 2022, in Miami, Florida, after getting into an Uber that included at least five other passengers. The shooting happened inside a 2020 Cadillac Escalade at around 2:15 a.m.
According to Local 10 News, the women began to argue inside the vehicle, and the confrontation quickly turned physical. Video footage from inside the vehicle showed Borcela and Harrell arguing before Harrell took a gun out of her purse and shot Borcela in the stomach. After the Uber driver stopped the vehicle near Southeast First Avenue and First Street, everyone reportedly got out and ran except for Borcela.
Harrell was arrested on July 26 and charged with second-degree murder for shooting Borcela. Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Director James Reyes said Harrell’s first pregnancy test on her first day in custody was negative. She tested positive on Aug. 12.
Harrell’s attorney, William M. Norris, filed an emergency motion on Feb. 17, claiming Harrell’s unborn child’s incarceration violates the fetus’ constitutional rights. According to Channel3000.com, Norris argued in his 24-page document that the imprisonment of his client who is eight months pregnant was “draconian confinement.” Norris also argued the state of Florida has endangered the unborn child by keeping Harrell in such “close proximity” to criminals due to her incarceration.
“Unborn Child has not been charged with any crime by the State. Further, the State has placed the Unborn Child in such inherently dangerous environment by placing the Unborn Child in close proximity to violent criminal offenders,” read the court document.
”The State has placed the Unborn Child in such inherently…
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