- Evalyce Santiago, 16, found dead after a car crash in Connecticut
- She had been shot in the head and hand before she died
- Police have arrested her boyfriend Dominique Pittman, 27
- The pair were dating, but he also had three children with her sister
A 16-year-old girl was allegedly shot dead by her 27-year-old boyfriend before he crashed the car they were travelling in in north Conneticut.
Evalyce Santiago was found dead with gunshot wounds to her head and hand inside the wreckage in Waterbury, New Haven County.
Her boyfriend Dominique Pittman was rescued from the wreckage and arrested by police.
Tragic: Police discovered the body of Evalyce Santiago, 16, inside the wreckage of a crashed car in Waterbury, Connecticut and have charged her boyfriend with her murder
Police found a weapon in the car and have since charged Pittman with killing the teenager.
Pittman and Miss Santiago were in a relationship at the time of her death, but Pittman also had three children with her older sister.
Police say they have determined that Santiago was shot at some point before the car crashed.
However, it is yet to be established if she died from the gunshot wounds or the crash, which saw the vehicle wrapped around a telephone pole, local news reports.
Murdered: It soon emerged that the teenager had suffered gunshot wounds to her head and hand at some point before the car crashed
Arrested: Dominique Pittman, 27, was dating the 16-year-old but also had three children with Miss Santiago’s older sister, her adoptive father revealed
Missed: The teenager’s family have paid tribute to a ‘vibrant’ girl who would ‘light up a room’
‘He was my son in law. I just want the truth,’ Miss Santiago’s adoptive father told WFSB.com
‘He was dating my daughter and he has three kids with my other daughter.’
Miss Santiago’s family have paid tribute to the ‘vibrant’ teenager who ‘knew how to light up a room’.
The family held a vigil at the crash site this week and have set up a GoFundMe page to raise money towards her funeral.