Unborn little one’s father and affiliate indicted for homicide of pregnant Brockton lady present in Rhode Island pond

A grand jury has indicted two males for the homicide of a pregnant Brockton lady whose physique was present in a Rhode Island pond final December.

The 2 males, 35-year-old Gary Gromkiewicz and 46-year-old Michael Lambert, Gromkiewicz’s identified affiliate, are accused of killing 34-year-old Leila Duarte DaLuz. DaLuz was Gromkiewicz’s ex-girlfriend, and he or she was pregnant along with his little one when she died, prosecutors say.

The 2 Rhode Island males had been initially arrested and charged with DaLuz’s homicide in Could, practically 5 months after an area fisherman discovered her physique beneath the ice in Carbuncle Pond in Coventry on Dec. 21, 2022.

DaLuz was discovered with cuts on her head, however she drowned within the pond, based on a Thursday press launch from the Rhode Island Legal professional Basic’s workplace.

“In response to the medical expert’s report, the sufferer sustained blunt pressure trauma to the top. The medical expert additionally discovered water in her lungs, indicating she was alive when she entered the water,” the discharge reads.

DaLuz was recognized days later via a lacking individual’s report out of Brockton, WPRI reported. She was reportedly discovered carrying a marriage ring Gromkiewicz had purchased her two years earlier than.

Gromkiewicz and DaLuz’s relationship

Prosecutors declare Gromkiewicz and DaLuz had a rocky relationship, the information station reported. Additionally they reportedly mentioned Gromkiewicz, a Lincoln resident, proposed to a special lady on Dec. 24, 2022.

A couple of days after DaLuz’s physique was discovered, prosecutors mentioned, Lincoln police referred to as Gromkiewicz, WPRI reported. Throughout the cellphone name, prosecutors reportedly mentioned he turned “more and more agitated.”

The information station reported that, based on a prosecutor, proper earlier than Gromkiewicz hung up, he mentioned “‘I’m all set. I’ve a girlfriend. I don’t need something to do with Leila. Should you discover her, don’t name me. I don’t care.’”

The case in opposition to Gromkiewicz and Lambert

The prosecution alleges that round 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 21, 2022, Gromkiewicz and Lambert drove to Brockton to choose DaLuz up at her residence. In response to cellular phone location information, the legal professional basic’s launch mentioned, they then drove round Rhode Island for a number of hours.

Throughout that point, the group made stops at fuel stations and comfort shops that had been captured on safety digital camera footage, the discharge mentioned. Cellular phone location information signifies that they then drove to part of Coventry close to Carbuncle Pond.

The discharge doesn’t present additional particulars about DaLuz’s homicide or the proof in opposition to Gromkiewicz and Lambert. Prosecutors beforehand mentioned they executed 53 search warrants in reference to the investigation.

Each Gromkiewicz and Lambert are charged with homicide and conspiracy to commit homicide, the discharge mentioned. They’re being held with out bail and are scheduled to be arraigned in Kent County Superior Court docket on Sept. 29.

Lambert has a earlier homicide conviction from 1995. In response to The Windfall Journal, he was convicted of second-degree homicide for stabbing a homeless man to demise beneath a Windfall I-95 onramp on Thanksgiving Day in 1994.

Gromkiewicz was beforehand convicted of assault and theft, The Boston Globe reported. Prosecutors reportedly mentioned the 2 males met in jail.