A Minnesota man who allegedly shot the mother of his children to death before turning the gun on himself was charged with murder.
Demarco Jones, 29, is recovering in a Minnesota hospital after a failed murder-suicide attempt on Dec. 24. According to a press release from Dakota County Attorney Kathy Keena, Jones was charged with second-degree intentional murder in connection with the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Tatianna Ehnes-Giles, whose body was found by her mother, who lived in the same house. In a criminal complaint reviewed by Law&Crime, police said the couple’s two young children were in the house when the shooting took place.
Deputies with the Dakota County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call from Ehnes-Giles’ mother at 2:23 p.m. on Dec. 24, in which she said that her daughter had been “shot in the head by her boyfriend,” who was identified as Jones. Ehnes-Giles’ mother told police that Jones had also possibly shot himself and was lying on the bedroom floor “in a trance.”…