The mother of New Orleans Pelican Zion Williamson’s child was arrested in a home invasion case involving an unidentified woman who authorities say she may have viewed as her romantic rival.
Ahkeema Love, 31, was arrested Sunday and charged with home invasion, aggravated battery and stalking, Kenner police said in a probable cause affidavit. Love is alleged to have shared a romantic partner with the woman described as the victim of the home invasion Sunday, police said.
According to the affidavit, Love egged the woman’s home on March 17 before she messaged her on Instagram saying, “don’t worry its going to be your head next when I drop this baby, count your days.”
Love delivered a child “shared by their romantic partner,” the affidavit says.
On Sunday, Love had the keys to the woman’s residence, “grabbed the victim’s hair and struck the victim with keys clenched in her fist,” the affidavit says.
The woman sustained lacerations above her eyes, a raised lump on her face and scratches to her arms and face, and four fingernails were torn from her hands, officials said.
Love was arrested at an address that appears to be Williamson’s home based on public records.
An attorney for Love declined to comment. Williamson also declined to comment Wednesday.
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Court records show Love had a bond hearing Tuesday and has been released from custody. An order of protection was issued and served to Love as part of her release, according to the court record.
Williamson, a forward whom the Pelicans drafted in 2019, is not named in the affidavit. He and Love have a daughter, who was born in 2023.
In March, Love said on her social media accounts that she was pregnant and celebrating “another addition to our family.” She did not name the child’s father in the post.
Williamson was in a series of photos Love posted in August, and she also posted a photo of herself on the Pelicans’ court in November.
The Jefferson Parish District Attorney’s office said it does not comment on open cases.
