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3rd Man Wanted In Shooting That Killed Newborn In Western Mass Added To Most Wanted List

A man who Hampden County police say was involved in a shooting that struck an innocent bystander and killed her unborn baby has been added to the state's most wanted list. 

Kermith D. Alvarez

Kermith D. Alvarez

Photo Credit: Massachusetts State Police
Selena Santana was shot by a stray bullet. She was pregnant, and doctors delivered her baby she planned to name Ezekiel, but he died two days after the shooting on Oct. 6.

Selena Santana was shot by a stray bullet. She was pregnant, and doctors delivered her baby she planned to name Ezekiel, but he died two days after the shooting on Oct. 6.

Photo Credit: Courtesy of GoFundMe "Baby"
Holyoke residents Alejandro Ramos, age 22 (left), and Johnluis Sanchez, age 30, are charged in connection with the Oct. 4 shooting, officials said.

Holyoke residents Alejandro Ramos, age 22 (left), and Johnluis Sanchez, age 30, are charged in connection with the Oct. 4 shooting, officials said.

Photo Credit: Hampden District Attorney

Kermith D. Alvarez is wanted on a murder charge in connection with the Oct. 4 shooting in Holyoke, the Hampden County District Attorney's Office said. Johnluis Sanchez, age 30, and Alejandro Ramos, age 22, were previously charged in the Oct. 4 shooting. 

Investigators said the men got into an argument and exchanged gunfire at the intersection of Sargeant and Maple Streets just after 12:30 p.m. One bullet passed through a nearby bus, striking pregnant Selena Santana. 

Paramedics rushed her to the hospital in critical condition, and doctors delivered the baby, but it died two days later, police said.  

Santana told NBC Boston that she had already picked out a name for her son and had spent months dreaming of holding him in her arms. 

"We weren't ready for this, we weren't expecting this," Santana said. "We wanted our baby, and now, you know, I haven't even gotten to see Ezekiel, which is my son's name."

A GoFundMe to help cover Santana's medical costs and for the baby's funeral has raised just shy of $3,500 as of Wednesday afternoon. 

Ramos and Sanchez are charged with murder and are being held without bail, the prosecutor said. 

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