A Florida man got mad at his ex-girlfriend because she didn’t answer his text messages. So he killed her.
Carlos Lemont Jones, 23, shot his ex-girlfriend 15 times in her driveway on December 20.
Jones told police he woke up angry on December 20 when he looked at his phone and saw that his ex-girlfriend had not responded to his texts and calls.
He drove to the woman’s house in Melbourne, Florida early in the morning, where she resided with her father, knowing she would soon be leaving her house to go to work.
He pulled into the driveway, waited, and confronted Sha’dayla Johnson when she came out the front door.
They spoke briefly and then she turned and started walking back to the house, the court affidavit reads.
Jones then took out a handgun and shot her in the back 15 times, the police said.
Melbourne Police Department officers responded to the house at around 7:48 am and found Johnson on the ground bleeding. She couldn’t be resuscitated.
Johnson’s father said he was in the living room when his daughter was shot. “After a few minutes, I heard a series of gunshots, and when I peeped through the windows, I saw Jones standing in the driveway,” he told police. He found his daughter lying in a pool of blood.
He told detectives that his daughter had dated Jones for about five months and they had been living together, but they had broken up two weeks before.
“Jones constantly called my daughter harassing and threatening her in an effort to win her back,” Johnson’s father said.
After he killed Johnson, Jones tossed a box of ammunition and the clothes he was wearing during the murder into a dumpsite at his apartment complex. He threw a pistol magazine out of the window of his car as he drove down the interstate and discarded his pistol in a storm drain in Rockledge.
His mother pleaded with him to surrender, and he later turned himself in to the police, the affidavit reads.
When asked if he felt sorry he had killed Johnson, Jones said no, and if he was given another chance, he would do it again, and would have also killed her father.
Jones faces one count of use of a firearm while committing a felony, and first-degree premeditated murder. He is being held at the Brevard County Jail without bond. He is scheduled for arraignment on January 19, 2023.
