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		</div><h6><span style="color: #5c4848;"><strong>Heavily pregnant Melanie Powers 36, was scheduled to undergo a C-section and welcome her daughter this week in Macon, Georgia </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #5c4848;"><strong>On Sunday her 19-year-old step-daughter, Passion Watkins, allegedly shot her from a point-blank range in bed</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #5c4848;"><strong>Passion Watkins, who the victim reportedly had taken in, saving her from an abusive father also tried to strangle the victim&#8217;s 11-year-old son,&#8217; </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #5c4848;"><strong>Following her arrest sitting on a park bench Sunday, Passion Latrice Watkins was charged with malice murder, aggravated assault, cruelty to children and feticide</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #5c4848;"><strong>The 11-year-old boy ran from the home to get help after he was awakened by his step-sister assaulting him and his mother</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #5c4848;"><strong>Watkins is also charged with attempting to strangle her step-brother</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-344918" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Passion-Watkins-left-and-Melanie-Powers-1.jpg" alt="Passion Watkins [left], and Melanie Powers 1" width="665" height="361" /><strong style="color: var(--color-text);">Passion Watkins, [left], has been charged with malice murder, aggravated assault, cruelty to children and feticide in the killing of her step-mother, Melanie Powers, 36 [right], on Sunday in Macon, Georgia </strong></h6>
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<p>Authorities in Bibb County, Georgia have arrested a 19-year-old girl who was accused of shooting dead her pregnant stepmother and attacking her 11-year-old stepbrother on Sunday at their home in Macon.<br />
Deputies from the county sheriff’s office were dispatched to a home in the 1000 block of Radio Drive just before 6.40am and found 36-year-old Melanie Powers in bed dead from a gunshot wound to the head.<br />
The victim&#8217;s 11-year-old son reportedly, ran from the home to get help after he was awakened by his step-sister, Passion Watkins, assaulting him and his mother.</p>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-344923" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Melanie-Powers-left-and-Passion-Watkins-2.jpg" alt="Melanie Powers [left], and Passion Watkins 2" width="673" height="490" /><strong style="color: var(--color-text);"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Heavily pregnant Melanie Powers [left], was scheduled to undergo a C-section and welcome her daughter this week. Her 19-year-old step-daughter, Passion Watkins, [right], allegedly shot her from a point-blank range on Sunday</span></strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Following up on leads, deputies tracked down Watkins sitting in a park on Pansy Avenue just before 6pm Sunday.<br />
Following an interview with investigators, the 19-year-old was booked into the county jail on charges of malice murder, aggravated assault, cruelty to children and feticide, stemming from the death of Powers&#8217; unborn daughter.<br />
The victim&#8217;s son was taken to a hospital to be treated for non life-threatening injuries. He was later released into the custody of family members.<br />
A friend of Powers with a purported knowledge of the incident described Watkins in a Facebook post as &#8216;the face of evil,&#8217; saying that she murdered &#8216;an amazing person&#8217; who took her into her home to save her from her abusive father, and who loved the girl as if she were her own child.</p>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-344922" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Passion-Watkins-arrest-2.jpg" alt="Passion Watkins arrest 2" width="691" height="578" /><strong style="color: var(--color-text);"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Hours later deputies arrested double-homicide suspect Passion Watkins in a park in Macon, Georgia, on Sunday evening, acting on a tip </span></strong><strong style="color: var(--color-text);"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"> </span></strong></h6>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">A friend wrote that Melanie was scheduled to undergo a C-section and welcome her daughter this week. Her step-daughter, Watkins, allegedly shot her from a point-blank range</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Melanie Leigh Bongiorno also revealed in the status update that Powers was due to undergo a scheduled Cesarean section within three days week and welcome her baby daughter.<br />
Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones corroborated that information, telling <a class="class" href="https://41nbc.com/2020/04/26/stepdaughter-charged-murder-macon-mother/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">41NBC </a>that Powers was eight-months pregnant and scheduled for a C-section this week.<br />
According to Bongiorno, Watkins shot her step-mother from a point-blank range and attempted to strangle her 11-year-old step-brother, who had lost his biological father to diabetes six years prior.<br />
&#8216;I hope Passion Watkins from Macon, Ga gets the death penalty for what she did!&#8217; Bongiorno wrote. &#8216;This is horrible, and the worst kind of evil there is!!&#8217;</p>
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Georgia teen, 19, charged with murder after shooting dead pregnant stepmom, who took her in, just days before victim’s planned C-section and strangling her 11-year-old step-brother
