CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 17 (UPI) -- A man was in jail Thursday after the shooting death of his pregnant teenage adopted sister at a Charlotte, N.C., school bus stop, authorities said.
Royce Mitchell, 36, was listed as a person of interest in the death of Tiffany Wright, 15, who was eight months pregnant when she was shot in the head Monday morning.
Her baby was successfully delivered later that day.
Police said the shooting stemmed from a domestic dispute, but would not elaborate.
After the shooting, Mitchell was charged with statutory rape and taking indecent liberties with a minor, based on the investigation into Tiffany's death, police said.
The charges constitute probation violations for Mitchell, who was imprisoned on a drug-trafficking charge in New York in 1999, Greg Forest, chief of the federal probation office in Charlotte, told The Charlotte Observer.
Mitchell was released in April 2007 and sentenced to four years' probation, Forest said.
A federal warrant is being prepared in New York that "will keep him from getting out of jail," Forest told the newspaper.
Mitchell, fired Wednesday from his job as a Charlotte street maintenance worker, has a bond hearing on the rape charges set for Sept. 25.
Tiffany's biological grandmother, Shirley Boston of Cheektowaga, N.Y., a Buffalo suburb, said she was trying to adopt her granddaughter, WGRZ-TV, Buffalo, reported.
