Monteiro was nearly three months pregnant at the time, her family said, as previously reported by WCVB and WBZ. She had told a friend — one of the last ones to see Monteiro alive — that she was not feeling safe. "She was like 'I don't feel safe right now something's not right,'" the friend reportedly said, per WCVB.

He threw me on the ground, and pulled my hair and strangled me,” she texted her sister. “My phones at 4 percent if I die, it was Greg.”

Gregory Groom, 22, is accused of killing 18-year-old Kylee Monteiro, who was 12 weeks pregnant and was last seen earlier this month.

Gregory Groom was charged in connection with the death of Kylee Monteiro, 18, who was 11 weeks pregnant with his child when she disappeared.

A Rehoboth man charged with murder reportedly drew a map pointing to a five-foot hole that he dug to bury his pregnant 18-year-old ex-girlfriend in after he stabbed her to death with a kitchen