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Baltimore woman kills to kids, family fights over who gets to set up GoFundMe
| Tantric rehab | 08/02/21 |
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Date: August 2nd, 2021 8:08 AM Author: Tantric rehab (Guess race)
Larry Darnell O’Neil III and his sister were inseparable.
The boy also loved taking car rides with his grandfather and playing at the park, Larry’s paternal grandmother, LaQuata M. Pitts O’Neil of Ohio, remembered Sunday, while his sister, Joshlyn Marie James Johnson, enjoyed baking cookies and cake with her.
“They were such good kids,” the grandmother said. “They were soft-spoken, well-mannered, precious souls.”
One week before his sixth birthday, the boy, called “Little Larry” by family members, and his 7-year-old half-sister’s bodies were found decomposing in the trunk of a car during a routine traffic stop in Essex. According to charging documents, Joshlyn’s body was reportedly inside a suitcase for more than a year.
Baltimore County Police charged the children’s aunt, Nicole Michelle Johnson, in connection with their deaths. The 33-year-old faces multiple charges, including neglect, failure to report the death of both children, disposal of their bodies, and child abuse that resulted in the death of the two children. The cause and manner of their deaths are being determined still by the state medical examiner’s office, police said. Johnson is being held without bail at the Baltimore County Detention Center in Towson.
Johnson had been caring for the two children since 2019 after their mother, Dachelle Johnson, moved to Maryland from Ohio and could no longer care for the children, the mother told detectives, according to the court documents.
Dachelle Johnson told detectives she tried numerous times to get in touch with her sister and her children but couldn’t locate them, according to court documents. In March, the mother told police, she arranged to meet her sister to get her kids, but they never showed up. She had been unable to contact them since, and a detective notified her of their deaths, police said.
In an interview with a homicide detective, Nicole Johnson admitted that in May 2020 while staying at the Regal Inn on Pulaski Highway in Rosedale, she became angry with Joshlyn and hit her several times, causing the child to hit her head on the floor. Documents say Johnson told police she then put Joshlyn’s body in a suitcase in her car.
Johnson also told detectives that two months ago Larry had told her he was tired and had lay down to sleep and never woke up, according to the charging documents. Johnson told detectives he had a wound on his left leg but she couldn’t elaborate about what caused the injury. She said she then placed his body in a tote, which Johnson kept in the car next to the decomposing body of his sister, the documents said.
The boy’s grandmother described the two as very close. If Larry was visiting with family without his sister, Dachelle would often call and Joshlyn would be in the background yelling and calling for him, O’Neil said. Little Larry would then insist upon going home to make sure his sister was OK.
“I don’t even think he was 3 years old when this started,” she said. “He would just keep saying, ‘My sister needs me.’ It was a burden on his heart.”
The boy’s family members from Ohio are left wondering what happened and whether they could have done more to save the two children.
O’Neil said the family found out about the children’s death from a Facebook post by Dachelle Johnson.
“She already had a GoFundMe up before we even knew,” the 45-year-old grandmother said. “Nobody even told my son. His son was dead before he knew and it was all over the world.” |