A woman in Arlington, Tennessee was arrested after her kindergarten daughter wrote a story about “Mommy” shooting “Daddy.”
Kaydra Johnson, 28, was arrested by police officers on Monday and accused of multiple charges of reckless endangerment of her four children.
Her little daughter wrote a story in her class about a previous argument between her parents that she witnessed and said her mother shot her father inside their Arlington, Tennessee home in front of the kids.
According to the Sheriff’s department, the school counselor at the Donelson Elementary School notified the Department of Children’s Services about potential child abuse, as the child and her siblings were allegedly witnesses to the shooting.
The child described how her mother asked her father to leave the house because he was smoking too much. She said her dad then hit her mother in the eye, and her mother grabbed a gun and shot her dad three times.
The child said she was sitting on the living room couch while the incident happened. Her three other siblings were present. She said her mother screamed at her father not to come back or she would shoot him again and told him to sleep in his car.
When the police arrived at the house they were told that the mom, Johnson, was locked out of the house. Inside the house, a one-year-old and a four-year-old were alone. Police report that Johnson had bruises and a cut near her right eye.
The two children were alone in the house for about one and a half hours but police were able to get in through a garage door and firefighters checked the kids, who seemed okay.
Officers discovered several bullet holes in the walls throughout the home. Johnson admitted she shot at her husband at least twice, but that he broke into the house uninvited and beat her with a vacuum cleaner. She said that the children were all present when she shot him. Her husband was not injured.
The house was searched and two guns were found. The Department of Children’s Services gave custody of the children to their grandmother and an aunt.
Johnson was released from jail and will appear in court on February 23.