A man in Texas was arrested for the killing of his sister and her unborn child after audio from a security doorbell camera captured him admitting to the crime.
Michael Egwuagu, a 25-year-old former safety for the University of Texas-San Antonio’s football team, was captured on a security doorbell camera saying, “I killed Jennifer,” shortly after his sister was stabbed multiple times. Jennifer Chioma Ebichi, a 32-year-old who was in the first trimester of pregnancy, died last week after first responders were unable to resuscitate her in Pflugerville, Texas, after the attack.
Witnesses near Ebichi’s home claimed they saw the former football player smiling on the steps of his sister’s home and shouting about the attack with a bloody knife in hand. Authorities accessed the doorbell camera footage from the home, which confirmed the account from witnesses.
One of the neighbors, Courtney Williams, claimed that Egwuagu seemed like a “nice guy,” telling CBS Austin, “We’d see him here, and again, kinda the same deal. Nice guy. He’d speak when he’d arrive and be leaving or whatnot.”
The warrant for Egwuagu’s arrest noted that one of Ebichi’s children was in the home during the attack. Authorities found her with one of the witnesses who told police that Egwuagu had shouted about killing her mother.
An attorney for the Egwuagu family explained that Ebichi’s two children have been placed in the custody of their grandparents. The family asked for privacy in the wake of the attack, calling the situation “a very painful and difficult time.”
Egwuagu was arrested and charged with murder. His bond was set at $500,000 at the Travis County Jail.
