Jury recommends death for man who killed pregnant woman in Alabama store

An Alabama jury on Wednesday recommended the death penalty for a man they convicted of capital murder in the 2019 slaying of a pregnant woman in a Conecuh County grocery store.

The Conecuh County jury voted 10-2 in recommending death for Michael Collin Mitchell, 43, of Evergreen in the fatal shooting of Lavon McCreary and her unborn child, court records showed.

Neither Conecuh County District Attorney Todd Watson nor an attorney for Mitchell could immediately be reached for comment on the jury’s recommended sentence.

Mitchell is scheduled to be sentenced by Conecuh County District Court Judge Jack B. Weaver on June 25, records showed.

McCreary, who was pregnant at the time of the 2019 shooting, was shot in front of her two children in the Pic-N-Sav grocery store in Evergreen, authorities said at the time.