A mom who suffocated her baby while high on drugs and then dumped his body in the trash has been stabbed to death by the infant’s dad while awaiting trial.
LaDonia Boggs, a woman from Washington DC, was found dead at her home after she allegedly admitted to throwing her 2-month-old son’s body in the trash. She had earlier claimed Kyon Jones died while he was asleep. Boggs, 39, was allegedly stabbed to death in a condominium on the 1500 block of Benning Road on Wednesday, April 27, according to a news release from the Metropolitan Police Department.
Detectives from the Fifth District went through reports of an incident in the vicinity shortly before 3 am that morning and discovered Boggs inside with apparent stab wounds. She was pronounced dead on the spot and brought to the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office.
Bogg’s partner, Carl Jones, 44, has been detained and charged with second-degree murder by officers from the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force. “This offense was domestic in nature,” police said.
Court documents said someone called 911 on Boggs’ phone, reporting a woman was dead in the apartment. Police said in the documents that the caller was Jones and that the 911 operator hung up, thinking the call was a prank. But officers went to the apartment and found Boggs’ body.
Jones was in contact with police using Boggs’ phone several times Wednesday morning; he also contacted Boggs’ relatives several times, pretending to be Boggs, the documents said.
He was arrested around noon the same day at Reagan National Airport, where he told police he worked, court documents said. He had been in contact with authorities several times that morning, looking for his work ID, which had been found outside the apartment building, along with a key to Boggs’ apartment.
Jones was also seen on security camera footage entering and leaving the apartment building several times in the hours leading up to the 911 call.
Jones and Boggs were the parents of Kyon Jones, who went missing last May and has not been found. At the time, Boggs gave the police several stories about where Kyon was, eventually admitting that the night the boy died, she had used PCP, and had rolled over on top of the child, who was in bed with her. When she discovered the boy unconscious, she told investigators, she placed the boy’s body in a dumpster.
Boggs was originally charged with murder, but after her admission, prosecutors updated documents in the case to include the possibility that Kyon’s death could have been accidental. The charges against Boggs were then downgraded to only tampering with evidence.
In interviews with the police after his arrest, Jones said he had done PCP that night, went to Boggs’ apartment, and got into an argument with her, but claimed she must have been stabbed when he was gone from the apartment for a few minutes.
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Source: AWM