Virginia Man Kills Girlfriend, Their Two Children, Then Commits Suicide

Crime

Responding to a 911 call, Stafford County Sheriff's deputies went to the Walt Lou Trailer Park in Stafford County, VA., and found a man and a women dead of gunshot wounds and two children, a 1 year old and a 2 year old, shot in the head in their cribs.

The children were taken to a local hospital but died as a result of the gun shot wounds.

The man, Aaron Poseidon Jackson, age 24, apparently shot the his girlfriend, Latasha Nicole Thomas, age 23, with an AK-47 type assault rifle, then he took a handgun, went to their children's bedroom and shot both kids in the head while they lay in their cribs.

The children have been identified as Nicole Aaron Jackson, age 2 and a half years and Aaron Neptune Jackson age one and half years.

According to investigators, Latasha had called a family member two times during the day and asked to be picked up because she was being physically assaulted by the children's father, but approximately at 9:30 pm, she called that family member back and said there was no need because "everything was ok".

The family member was already on the way to the trailer when the last call came, so they decided to continue over there and when she got there she received no response to her knowing on the door.

Worried, she went to a neighbor who told her that they heard a gunshot about 10 minutes before she arrived. She then called 911, but it was too late.

This is the second incident in less than a week where a child has been killed in Stafford County.

Last week it was reported that Anthony Lemontez King Jr, 22 years old, was arrested and charged with felony murder, felony child abuse, and causing injury to a child, after and 2 month old infant died of Shaken Baby Syndrome from an incident on April 23, 2008, to which emergency responders found the infant unresponsive at a North Stafford home.

They rushed the child to Mary Washington Hospital, and later transferred the baby to St. Mary's Hospital in Richmond where the infant was pronounced dead on Tuesday, April 29, 2008.

King was arrested after investigators determined he was responsible for shaking the baby, causing the injuries.

Originally King was charged with child abuse, but after the baby died, murder charges were included and he is being held without bond at Rappahannock Regional Jail.

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