A 23-year-old man charged last spring in the death of his pregnant sister and her unborn child has now being indicted by a Dakota County grand jury on charges of premeditated first-degree murder and intentional second-degree murder, the Dakota County Attorney’s Office announced Thursday.

A Dakota County grand jury has brought elevated murder charges against a Lakeville man accused of killing his pregnant sister and dismembering her body.

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A Lakeville man has been indicted on four murder charges for the death of his sister and her unborn child in May. A grand jury in Dakota County indicted Jack Joseph Ball, 23, of two counts of premeditated first-degree murder and two counts of intentional second-degree murder.

A Greenwood man has been charged with murder and feticide in connection with the homicide of a pregnant woman on Indy’s south side. Inside a second-story apartment on Ella Dobbs Lane, Sha’Naiya McDonald was suffocated,