Posted on 01/28/2003 1:44:49 PM PST by Mr. Silverback
Relatives say man was angry about abortion
When the first of three blue body bags was carried out of the two-story house on N. 39th St. Saturday morning, screams and sobs erupted from the crowd of relatives and onlookers gathered along the yellow police tape.
The wailing grew louder when a man emerged from the house cradling the last body bag in his arms. Less than half the size of the first two, this one contained the body of a 2-year-old girl.
It was grim confirmation of what those standing in the cold for about three hours had known but didn't want to believe - three people inside the home were dead from gunshot wounds.
The child, along with a 22-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman, were found lying in pools of blood shortly after 8:20 a.m. Saturday on the second floor of the home in the 2100 block of N. 39th St.
Police are treating the deaths as a double homicide-suicide. They say the man shot the child and woman and then turned the gun on himself.
Police were not releasing the names of the dead, but relatives identified them as Quan Hill, Candice Farrington and her daughter, D'Naja Morgan.
Police Capt. Linda Haynes said the motive remains unclear, except that the deaths had something to do with the couple's relationship.
But relatives of Farrington said the woman and her daughter were killed by Hill because he was angry over Farrington's recent abortion. She was carrying Hill's child, they said.
Haynes said police found a weapon in the house, but she declined to describe it or say where it was found.
Farrington had been shot once in the head and once in the neck, and her daughter had been shot twice in the chest, Haynes said.
Hill had one gunshot wound to his head, Haynes said.
Police have not determined when the deaths occurred, and the Milwaukee County medical examiner's office is conducting autopsies to establish, among other things, the time of the deaths, Haynes said.
Hill lived in the home with his mother, his 2-year-old daughter and his 7-year-old brother.
Child found bodies The 7-year-old discovered the bodies in an upstairs bedroom, said Bonita Goodman-Johnson, Hill's aunt.
She said Hill's mother, Angela Hill, his daughter and brother all were on the first floor and had not heard anything unusual Friday night or Saturday morning. They were not harmed, she said.
"My sister lives in the house. She called and told me to get over here. She thought her son was dead. She was crying," Goodman-Johnson said. "They were saying 'Get over here. There's blood everywhere.' "
Goodman-Johnson said Angela Hill told her Quan Hill went out Friday night, but she did not hear him return home.
Relatives of the victims gave conflicting accounts of the relationship between Hill and Farrington.
Goodman-Johnson and another sister, Vintinita Hill, said Quan Hill talked of getting an apartment for him, his daughter and Farrington and her daughter to live in. They said they had been encouraging him to move from the crime-ridden neighborhood.
Quan Hill also had talked of enrolling in Milwaukee Area Technical College to learn welding so he could support his family.
But Farrington's relatives said Farrington was trying to leave Quan Hill, whom she had met last summer and had dated since then.
Sheila Freeman, Farrington's aunt, said Farrington had been living at her house and was planning to move to Atlanta, where her mother lives.
Freeman said Farrington had an abortion on Thursday, and that angered Hill.
"He talked about killing her," Freeman said. "He was bad news. He threatened her all the time. We tried to get her away from him. He just kept coming back and sweet-talking her."
Hard to believe Goodman-Johnson said Saturday afternoon that she just couldn't believe her nephew would kill his girlfriend, her daughter and himself.
"I just don't see him doing anything like that. He was just a very happy person," she said. "My sister saw him last night before she went to bed. He was in a cheerful, happy mood."
Quan Hill had a pending misdemeanor case for criminal damage to property. He had prior felony convictions for fleeing an officer and felon in possession of a firearm in 2000, and three counts of reckless driving, great bodily harm in 1998. He also had been charged in the past with bail jumping and cocaine delivery, but those charges were dismissed, according to a state computer index of court records.
Although police had not yet confirmed on Saturday morning that Hill killed Farrington and her daughter, Farrington's relatives expressed that belief. One of Farrington's relatives shouted, "He killed her," at Hill's family members as authorities carried one of the bodies out of the house about 11:30 a.m.
Members of both families then converged in the intersection of N. 39th and Lloyd streets and had a brief shouting match. Police stepped in to break up the quarrel.
Just before the first body was removed from the home, police took into custody one young man who got into a shoving match with onlookers across the street from the home. The man had been drinking and had set a bottle on the ground before the incident occurred.
Then, as the bodies were being removed from the home, a driver who was pulling away from the curb on Lloyd St. while watching the activity at the home hit a squad car, giving it a small dent and scratching some paint.
The cop told a supervisor at the scene that it was nothing, and didn't think the collision was intentional.
In all, more than 50 people had gathered to watch events transpire.
"The wailing grew louder when a man emerged from the house cradling the last body bag in his arms. Less than half the size of the first two, this one contained the body of a 2-year-old girl."
D'Naja Morgan
Candice Farrington
Quan Hill
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Obviously, a mentally deranged psycho.
Huh? - I don't think it sounds like our wacko was upset about the abortion from a "right to life" viewpoint.
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Not that "Quan" wasn't a scumbag, but the abortion obviously pushed him over the edge. Making an abortion a bit harder to get might have saved this woman and her daughter. (That is, of course, assuming that some other tragedy, like Oakland losing the Superbowl, wasn't enough to drive this guy around the bend.)
If I post an article about a guy jumping off a building, am I going to have to specifically spell out my acceptance of Newtonian physics? I mean, yeeeesh!
Sadly, I would have to agree with that sentiment. Anyone who could blow away a 2 year old regardless of what started the events is a pretty sick puppy.
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