Mother And Daughter Murdered Behind $600 Monthly Child Support Payments

Daron Boswell-Johnson confessed to the murder. He said he waited outside NeShante’s home, confronted her over the $600 monthly child support he recently had been ordered to pay and shot her and the toddler.

NeShante Davis was strapping her 2-year-old daughter Chloe into her car seat on a cold February morning when she was shot in the back in Fort Washington, Maryland. Then, the gunman shot the little girl twice in the head.

NeShante was only 26 years old. Her daughter never got to celebrate her third birthday.

Detectives who interviewed Boswell-Johnson said he led police on the route he took to the crime scene and drew a map to where he said he dumped the gun. However, police never found it.

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NeShante, a second-grade teacher, was shot near her car. She was taking her daughter to day care before heading to work. Her cousin heard gunshots and then saw NeShante lying facedown about 7 a.m. The 2-year-old was found with two gunshot wounds to the head. Her mom had just strapped her into her car seat.

Initially, Boswell-Johnson told detectives he woke up about 7 a.m. at his family’s apartment. He said he got to work at an auto glass shop in Gaithersburg, Maryland about 8:15 a.m.

But surveillance cameras at his apartment complex showed his gray Ford Escape leaving about 5:55 a.m. That’s when he said he had been sleeping. Surveillance showed him returning about 7:30 a.m. His SUV had a distinctive “donut” spare tire on the front driver’s side wheel.

Then, Boswell-Johnson admitted that he went to NeShante’s home the morning of February 2. He said he had never showed up there unannounced but that he had wanted to see his daughter before she went to day care that day.

NeShante was surprised to see him outside her apartment as she carried her daughter he expressed. Then Boswell-Johnson admitted that he went to NeShante’s apartment angry, with a gun in his waistband.

“I want you to take the child support off,” he recalled saying, with the gun in his hand.

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He said NeShante kept walking so he opened fire. Boswell-Johnson said he didn’t remember how many times he shot his daughter. At one point, he appeared to say “yes” when a detective asked him if he shot the child accidentally. He was charged with two counts of murder and two counts of use of a firearm in a crime of violence.

Boswell-Johnson refused to say where the gun was. Then, he agreed to draw a map. He said he dumped a .357 handgun in a plastic Walmart bag near an apartment complex in Shady Grove, close to where he worked. The gun was loaded, and additional bullets were in the bag, he said.

As Boswell-Johnson described where the gun could be found, he said in a low voice: “I’m going to jail for life, man.”

After Boswell-Johnson drew a detective a map of where he said they could find the gun, he asked him to relay messages to three people: his mother, the mother of his two other children, and his girlfriend.

“I know I failed you as a son, and I can just imagine how you’re feeling,” he wrote to his mother.

“I am not the monster they are making me out to be,” he wrote to the mother of his first two children. “I told the truth in everything.”

To his girlfriend, he apologized.

“Sorry you have to go through this,” he wrote. “I know my life is over at this point.” Then, he asked her to visit him in jail.

Daron Boswell-Johnson was convicted on all counts in the February 2, 2016 murder of NeShante Davis and Chloe Davis-Green. After a seven-day trial, the jury deliberated for about two hours and found him guilty of first-degree murder and weapons charges.

Judge William Michael R. Peartwo, on June 21, 2018, gave Boswell-Johnson two consecutive life sentences without parole for fatally shooting. The judge condemned his actions as “callous” and showing a “lack of empathy.”

He was also sentenced to 20 years on the weapons charges.