In the early hours of this Sunday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation canceled the Amber alert activated at 2:00 in the morning due to the disappearance of the minor Jaquari Bennettin the city of Covington.
“With pain in my heart,” the 1 1/2-year-old girl was reportedly found dead behind a church in Riverdale, alongside her father, Darian Javaris Bennet. The 38-year-old man would have taken her in her car following fatally shooting Keshawn Washingtonmother of the little girl and leave the grandmother injured.
The desperate search for the minor began this Saturday, June 11, when shortly following 11:00 p.m., the police received an emergency call from a residence located on Chandler Field Drive, in Newton County.
Upon arrival, they found a woman shot to death and her mother shot.
In the house there were also two minors, children of the deceased, aged 11 and 12. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper reported that it was these children who called 9-1-1 for help.
Before being transferred in critical condition to a hospital in Atlanta, the grandmother of the minors, identified as Peggy Burns, A 63-year-old cancer patient, he confessed to authorities that Darian Javaris Bennet shot them and took his daughter, Jaquari, who was only a year and a half, when he fled.
At that moment an Amber Alert was activated, seeking to rescue the little girl alive.
Jaquari’s father contacted the authorities before killing her
Preliminarily, according to the Newton County Sheriff’s Office, the suspect contacted the authorities around 7:00 in the morning, to tell them that he was between Riverdale and Adams Drive, in Clayton County.
It is alleged that in that call he threatened to take his own life and also the girl.
Using technology, the authorities detected the precise place from which he was calling them and immediately left there. Just as they arrived, they heard shots.
Darian Javaris Bennett was following a Methodist church, with which it was confirmed that he had no ties.
There he shot the girl and with the same weapon he killed himself.
