Man Who Shot Ex-Girlfriend 15 Events After She ‘Ignored His Calls and Texts’ Sentenced

On Wednesday, State Circuit Courtroom Select Steve Henderson sentenced Carlos L. Jones II to life in jail for the 2022 murder of his Sha’Dayla Johnson, consistent with the Brevard and Seminole County State Authorized skilled’s Office.

In January 2023, Jones, 24, was indicted on first-degree premeditated murder. He was convicted of second-degree murder whereas discharging a firearm inflicting demise in September after a Brevard County jury found him accountable.

In December 2022, Johnson, 23, was found unresponsive inside the carport of her home after Melbourne Police responded to a 911 identify a few woman who had been shot, consistent with a police affidavit shared by Regulation&Crime.

“Sha’Dayla [Johnson] appeared to have plenty of gunshot wounds concentrated inside the once more side of her physique, suggesting she was shot as she was strolling or working away from the perpetrator,” be taught the affidavit.

Johnson died from her gunshot wounds inside the hospital.

According to police, witnesses observed Jones “fleeing” away from the scene on the time of the taking footage.

Investigators detailed the incident — along with Johnson’s father Torrance’s account — inside the affidavit. According to the sufferer’s father, who lived with Johnson, on the morning of the incident, he was sitting within the lounge whereas Johnson purchased ready for work. Shortly after she left, Torrance said he heard gunshots and acquired as a lot as look out the window.

Per the affidavit, Torrance observed Jones “standing behind Sha’Dayla’s car staring inside the path of his dwelling.” He then went open air to “further study,” and observed that Jones was gone, sooner than he then found his daughter “lying face down on the carport floor, by the doorway of her car in a pool of her private blood,” the doc said.

According to police, Torrance said Jones and Johnson had broken up two weeks sooner than the incident, and Johnson had “been consistently calling and harassing Sha’Dayla [Johnson] in efforts to get once more alongside along with her.”

“Sha’Dayla refused to speak to Carlos and ignored his calls and texts,” the affidavit well-known.

Authorities said Jones turned himself in to the Palm Bay Police a few hours after the taking footage.

“Palm Bay Police said when Carlos [Jones]entered the lobby, he spontaneously mentioned that he was having a look at going by means of 35 years in jail, nevertheless he wouldn’t elaborate why,” police wrote inside the affidavit, together with that Jones confessed to taking footage Johnson alongside together with his semiautomatic weapon.

Per police, Jones outlined that he “wakened that morning in an indignant state because of Sha’Dayla had not been answering his cellphone calls or texts.”

“Carlos said it was that very second when he decided he was going to shoot and kill Sha’Dayla,” investigators mentioned inside the affidavit.

Police said Jones knowledgeable them that he confronted Johnson at a specific time when knew she might be leaving for work. He said he blocked her car inside the driveway, they often spoke. Nonetheless, Jones added that when Johnson turned away to return inside, he “shot her inside the once more 15 situations.”

“His estimation inside the number of rounds fired was primarily based totally on the reality that he solely had 3 rounds left in his journal following the taking footage,” police wrote. “Carlos said he arrived with a totally loaded journal, and his pistol, along with the journal, held an entire of 18 rounds. Carlos estimated that Sha’Dayla was spherical 8 toes away from him when he shot her, and he or she collapsed onto the carport floor in entrance of her car after being shot.”

Jones knowledgeable police that he discarded his clothes and the gun, which they later found.

As for why he turned himself in, officers wrote that Jones said his mom “pleaded with him to surrender.”

According to Wednesday’s press launch, Jones shall be transferred to the Florida Division of Corrections to start out serving his sentence in a few days.