Mollian Johnson had been planning to leave her live-in boyfriend for months, her daughter said, before he allegedly shot and killed her and her family in their apartment last week.
Records obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution show that Jonathan Darden had a criminal history dating back years — including rape and a new related charge made just days before DeKalb County police say he fatally shot Johnson, 43, Kaylyn Samuel, 25, and Samuel’s two children, 1-year-old Jontavious Powell and 5-year old Jedorah Powell, and then took his own life.
“They had so much life left to live, and it’s just sick that it got taken away from them, all of them,” Johnson’s daughter, Chanel Carter, told the AJC.
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Officers arrived at the Vineyards at Flat Shoals apartment complex at around 7:30 p.m. Saturday and found all five of them dead from gunshot wounds, officials said. Police did not say when they believe the shooting took place. An investigator with the DeKalb Medical Examiner’s Office said the time of death is still under investigation.
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Earlier that week, calls to the family went unanswered, Carter said. Samuel’s boss, a manager at Walgreens, called police Thursday and asked them to check on her after she didn’t show up to work, according to 911 records…