NEW ORLEANS (WVUE/Gray Information) – A desk at the Very first Town Courtroom in New Orleans sat empty Tuesday just after Casandra Jones was killed by a person she reportedly viewed as submitting a restraining purchase versus.
WVUE acquired a copy of the 25-website page non permanent restraining order that Jones filed in Might but hardly ever confirmed up in court to comply with through on. It alleges BJ Brown punched, choked, shoved, kicked, threatened, intimidated and sexually abused her, alongside with mental, emotional and economic abuse.
It aspects an early early morning incident on April 27 close to 3:30 a.m. when Brown allegedly came above and they commenced to battle.
Jones reported she explained to him to get out, and he strike her with a belt numerous periods, bruising her. 911 was identified as, and Jones said Brown punched her and threw her to the floor, stomping on her.
Once police arrived, she claimed Brown jumped off her upstairs balcony to escape.
After the officers left, she reported he acquired back into her condominium wherever they continued to struggle, and he tried to smother her with a pillow.
She also alleged there was a different event the place she confronted him about cheating on her, and he punched her, knocking her enamel out.
Brown has a prolonged felony historical past, spanning far more than a 10 years throughout several parishes. Most of the costs occur from St. John the Baptist, wherever he experienced been arrested additional than 10 instances above the previous 10 a long time.
He’s been arrested at minimum twice for domestic abuse battery. Court data display Jones as the victim of at the very least just one of these incidents. Both periods the costs were dropped by the target.
Some of the other frequent fees were being basic robbery, battery and assault, together with resisting an officer and flight from an officer. There is even 1 demand of injuring or killing a law enforcement animal, together with numerous drug prices.
Numerous situations, he seems to have been arrested with exceptional warrants.
The Initially City Clerk of Courtroom, Austin Badon, mentioned Jones was leaving her property, headed for function, and which is when suspect Brown shot her just in advance of 9:30 a.m. Monday.
Mobile cell phone movie of her execution-fashion killing was extensively shared on social media.
In the harrowing video clip, a guy thought to be Brown walks about to Jones after she’s shot and almost lifeless in the apartment parking large amount and fires two additional rounds into her entire body.
“Walked down the avenue with a gun, a prolonged gun, with no any panic of repercussions and shoots somebody for whichever explanation in broad daylight,” Badon mentioned. “Seemingly, this individual walked absent and came back and completed her off.”
Right after the capturing, Brown fled to Tennessee where by he reportedly shot a cop for the duration of a targeted traffic end and escaped into the woods. The New Orleans Law enforcement Division obtained an arrest warrant for Brown for 2nd-degree murder.
Badon claims Jones had domestic problems with Brown and even regarded filing a short-term restraining buy towards him.
“We spoke about it, and I told her she experienced my entire support, and I encouraged her to go as a result of with it, but I feel she resolved not to,” he reported.
Actor and mentor Ameer Baraka states the video reveals Brown hunting down his victim.
“This technology has no panic. … They have no concern,” Baraka explained. “Animals really don’t do this. This is barbaric. This is inhuman conduct. It is pure evil to do a thing like that.”
Badon, like many others, is upset that the brutal killing was circulated on social media.
“What did we appear to as a culture when we set that things out there on social media?” he questioned. “It’s just heartbreaking that rather of rendering aid and assist, people today made the decision to pull out their telephones and place that stuff out there.”
Jones leaves at the rear of two little ones. She’s explained as staying a challenging employee, only hoping to give for her household.
“Her long term has now been lower short,” Badon claimed. “Now she’s a statistic for gun violence and domestic violence.”
A manhunt is underway in the compact town of Erin, Tennessee, about 65 miles west of Nashville.
Brown is deemed armed and dangerous. If you know anything at all about his whereabouts, you’re asked to contact the police.
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