If she was living with the mother after the shooting, why was she meeting her mother, grandfather and attorney at the doughnut shop, before court? Tells me she was spending the night elsewhere and taking sleeping pills.moo
The mother of the 6-year-old student who shot his teacher at Richneck Elementary School three months ago has turned herself in to face two pending charges. Deja Nicole Taylor — indicted Monda…
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But Taylor failed to meet Ellenson and her mother and grandfather at the preplanned meeting spot — a Dunkin Donuts on Washington Avenue — at 9:45 a.m.
Ellenson called Sheriff Gabe Morgan at about 10:20 a.m. to notify him of the problem.
Morgan urged the family to find Taylor or he would “do what he had to do” to track her down. Taylor’s mother, grandfather and Ellenson left the Dunkin Donuts at 10:30 a.m. — with the mother in tears at the plan falling through.
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But Taylor called her mother at 10:54 a.m. to say she had overslept. Ellenson said she took several sleeping pills Wednesday night because she was anxious and couldn’t sleep — then ended up oversleeping Thursday morning as a result.
“I think she’s just really scared,” the attorney said. “She’s never been arrested, and she’s just really scared.”
Deja Nicole Taylor, whose son shot 25-year-old Abby Zwerner in her first-grade classroom on Jan. 6, pleaded guilty in Newport News federal court to a felony charge of having a firearm while also po…
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After the Richneck shooting, ATF agents executed a search warrant on Jan. 19 at the Newport News home
Taylor and her son lived in with her grandfather.
Though Taylor had moved out Jan. 6 to go to live with her mother, police found suspected weed and narcotics packaging in Taylor’s bedroom at her grandfather’s place.
The grandfather also gave investigators trash bags with items he removed from Taylor’s car when it broke down weeks earlier. Aside from the gun barrel lock, that also include a box of ammunition and “a jar of suspected marijuana.”