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A Stafford County mother complained of domestic violence to a female relative just hours before her boyfriend killed her and their two children Monday night, the sheriff's office said Tuesday.
Investigators were called to the Waltlou mobile home community in Falmouth about 9:40 p.m. Monday night for the report of a domestic disturbance. Inside the home at 4 Walt Way, investigators found the bodies of Aaron Poseidon Jackson, 24, Latasha Nicole Thomas, 23, and their two children, two-and-a-half-year-old Nicole Aaron Jackson and 18-month-old Aaron Neptune Jackson.
All the victims had been shot in the head, police said. Thomas was killed with an assault rife.
"He seemed like he had a decent head on his shoulders," said neighbor Donny McDowell. "I never expected this to happen."
Richard Atchley, the manager of the Waltlou Mobile Home Park, said Jackson worked as a landscaper and Thomas worked at a day care.
He said there was never any indication of problems until Sunday night, when Thomas came to him and told her she was having problems with Jackson. On Monday, she returned to ask Atchley to take her name off the lease of the mobile home she shared with Jackson.
"She came to me and ask if she could get out of ... get her name off the lease. I told her I was pretty sure she could. I just had let the boss man know," said Atchley. "She wanted out of here. She wanted to go back to her family."
Police say Thomas had called a family member twice on Monday to ask her to come and pick her up because Jackson had become abusive.
Thomas called the family member, who was en route to the home, shortly before the shooting to say that there was no need for her to come, because everything was OK, police said.
The relative continued on to the home. When she arrived, there was no response at the door.
She talked to a neighbor, who had heard a gunshot about ten minutes before the relative arrived, according to investigators.
"They were nice people; two young kids, sweet kids, used to play with my children," said neighbor Melinda Goddard.
A woman who recently became romantically involved with Aaron Jackson says she talked to him right before he apparently started shooting. "He called me and he was like she had apparently came to the house and gotten rid of all of this things and he said I will probably be in jail by the end of the evening and he was drunk."
Neighbors are stunned and angry. "I hope he burns in hell. I don't understand how anybody can get so bad that they would kill their own children, especially when they are lying in their cribs not hurting a soul," says Donna LaDow.
At Almost Home Child Care, where Natasha Thomas worked and his two small children were cared for, colleagues are taking up a fund to help pay for the funeral of Thomas and the kids. "It's devastating. It's horrible. We all think of these children as our own children and its just like we lost a piece of us as well as a colleague that we all respected and loved and cherished," says Andrea Morris.
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