Billy Bennett Adams III, a hip-hop artist who performs as Ace NH and who was acquitted last month of a fatal double shooting, was arrested again Wednesday, this time on charges related to the Jan. 27 death of a pregnant Tampa woman.

Adams, 25, killed Alana Sims, 22, on Jan. 30 and left her beside her parked SUV in a New Tampa subdivision called Easton Park, the Tampa Police Department said Wednesday. Her toddler son was found unharmed, sleeping in a car seat in the vehicle.

Adams, once again, is facing a first-degree murder charge. He also faces a charge of killing an unborn child by injury to the mother, police said.

Sims’ family publicly confirmed that she is the victim in the case…

… A Tampa police news release quoted Hillsborough State Attorney Susan Lopez saying that her office had worked closely with the department since the night of Sims’ death.

“While we respect the verdict of the jury in the prior case, we disagreed with it and that is why we prosecuted him,” Lopez said in the release. “We will continue to work with (the Tampa Police Department) to prosecute him for these latest crimes.”

 

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