A Florida man shot his ex-girlfriend 15 times in her driveway because he was mad at her for not answering his texts and phone calls.
The shooter was identified as Carlos Lemont Jones, 23. He told police he woke up angry on December 20 when he looked at his phone and saw that his former girlfriend had not responded to his texts and calls.
Early in the morning, the man drove to the woman’s house in Melbourne, Florida, where she lived with her father, knowing she would be leaving the house to go to work.
He pulled into the driveway and confronted his ex-girlfriend, Sha’dayla Johnson, as she walked through the front door.
They spoke briefly and then she turned and started walking back to the house, the court affidavit reads.
Angry she was walking away from him, Jones pulled out a handgun and shot her in the back 15 times, the police said.
Officers from the Melbourne Police Department arrived at the home at around 7:48 am and found Johnson lying on the floor. She couldn’t be resuscitated, the affidavit said.
Johnson’s father said he was in the living room when his daughter walked out of the front door to go to work. “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 detectives. He added that he walked out and found his daughter lying in a pool of blood.
He also told detectives that his daughter had been dating Jones for about five months and they had been living together, but they broke up two weeks before the murder.
“Jones constantly called my daughter harassing and threatening her in an effort to win her back,” Johnson’s father said.
After shooting Johnson, Jones dumped a box of ammunition and the clothes he was wearing into a dumpsite at his apartment complex. He then threw a pistol magazine out of the window of his car as he drove down the interstate before discarding his automatic pistol in a storm drain in Rockledge.
His mother called him and pleaded with him to surrender, and hours later he turned himself in to the police, the affidavit says.
When asked if he felt remorseful about the act, Jones said if he was given another chance, he would do it again. He said he would have killed Johnson’s father as well.
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.