yesterday was the second worst day of my life. This story is about my girlfriends best friend; a very close friend of mine.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/ind...d_against.html
In July, Trisha Edelman went to her ex-boyfriend’s apartment to pick up their toddler daughter for visitation.
Once she was in the apartment, Adam Trump pulled a gun on her, Edelman told police. First, he threatened to kill himself, then he forced her to the bed and tried to smother her with a pillow as he threatened to kill her, she reported.
Edelman managed to calm him down and flee the apartment with the couple’s daughter and call police, who arrested Trump.
But Edelman — who her mother said was 18 weeks’ pregnant — was not as lucky when she apparently drove to Trump’s New Cumberland town house early Tuesday.
That’s when police say Trump likely shot the 21-year-old in the stomach while she was in her car and carried her to his town house.
Trump was lying in his bed next to the body when officers entered his apartment around 3 a.m. Wednesday, police said. They said he admitted to shooting Edelman.
It was one day before Trump, 25, was due in court to face aggravated-assault charges in connection with the July incident. He had been free on $150,000 bail.
Cumberland County District Attorney David Freed said authorities don’t know why Edelman apparently drove to the apartment. He said he didn’t know the custody arrangements. The couple’s daughter wasn’t there at the time of the shooting.
“This young lady did everything she was supposed to do, and she’s dead,” Freed said, adding she couldn’t avoid him because they had a child together.
Police learned that Edelman might be in danger Tuesday when Hampden Township. police received a call from her mother, Gina Edelman, saying she was worried about her daughter.
Because of the July incident, Freed said his office and police moved quickly to search for Edelman, a Cumberland Valley High School graduate, after her mother reported her missing on Tuesday.
“We knew about the previous case in which she was a victim, and she did have a [protection-from-abuse order],” Freed said. “So Hampden [police] immediately responded, talked to her mother and then started to try to take steps to locate her.”
Trump was charged with homicide. He is being held in county prison. Freed said a decision about whether to charge Trump in connection with the death of Edelman’s unborn child will depend on the results of an autopsy today and a check of Pennsylvania law.
According to court documents, Gina Edelman told police her daughter had left her home about 4 p.m. Monday, saying she was not feeling well. The next morning, Gina Edelman received a text asking “Where’s Trisha?” from Trisha’s new boyfriend, Brian Morris, with whom she shared a home on Elk Court in Hampden Township.
Gina Edelman found that her daughter had not arrived for work that morning, none of her friends had heard from her, and she had not updated her Facebook page. Gina Edelman told police it was unusual for her daughter to stay out of touch.
Police used cell phone signals to locate Trisha Edelman and Trump at Trump’s rented town house on 15th Street.
He had lived at the two-story home a short time. At the time of the incident in July, he lived in Mechanicsburg, Freed said.
Freed said police at first were concerned they could be facing a dangerous hostage situation and that Trump might be armed. They found Edelman’s car parked at his town-house complex, then obtained a key to the apartment from the landlord.
Freed said police found Trump and Edelman in an upstairs bedroom. When a police officer tried to determine Edelman’s state of health, Trump said only, “She’s dead,” he said.
An officer reported seeing a handgun next to the body, and Freed said there was a shotgun in the town house as well.
Freed said the handgun that Trump was accused of using in July was recovered by police around that time, and he said it appeared that the handgun and shotgun recovered Wednesday were stolen.
Court records show Trump and Edelman had problems before July. In February 2008, Trump was charged in Silver Spring Township with simple assault against Edelman, but the charge was reduced to a harassment conviction.
In June 2007, he had been charged with possession of a controlled substance, found guilty and ordered to pay a fine of $700 and serve 12 months of probation.
, sorry for you and your gf's loss DwaynieAD.
