Police: Gang member charged after his pregnant wife accidentally shoots herself, killing unborn baby

MINT HILL, N.C. – Mint Hill Police arrested 41-year-old Luis Marcano-Marcano after his pregnant wife accidentally shot herself. The shooting killed the couple’s unborn child. Officers say Marcano-Marcano and his wife got into a fight early Sunday morning, and he fired the gun into the ground near her feet. They say he had been drinking at his birthday party in the hours before.

Investigators say his seven-month-pregnant wife told them that she then tried to take the gun from him, and put it in her pocket, but she accidentally pulled the trigger.

Marcano-Marcano is now charged with discharging a firearm within city limits. Police say he is also a known gang member. He was given a $1 million bond, and is now being held by Immigration Enforcement on arrest warrants out of Venezuela.