A Florida man was arrested in New Jersey last week in the fatal shooting of a woman and death of her baby, who was trapped in a hot car with her mother’s body, authorities said.
Doujon Griffiths, 23, had been wanted since September 2021 in the deaths of 20-year-old Massania Malcolm and her 1-year-old daughter, Jordania Reid. Griffiths is also facing attempted murder charges in the shooting of Jordane Reid, identified by investigators as Malcolm’s boyfriend and Jordania’s father.
Orange County Sheriff’s Office
The shootings took place outside Malcolm’s Orlando apartment building on Sept. 7, 2021, Orange County Sheriff’s Office detectives said in arrest warrants obtained by HuffPost.
Jordane Reid was hospitalized and has since recovered. Malcolm and Jordania’s bodies were discovered on Sept. 9 in Reid’s car, Sheriff John Mina said in a Sept. 10 news conference.
“It’s disgusting,” Mina said at the time. “It’s truly an evil person, and whoever did that will have to pay for those crimes.”
Griffiths had been living with Malcolm and Reid, a longtime friend, at her Orlando apartment in the month leading up to the shootings, sheriff’s detectives said in arrest warrants issued in September. Malcolm was upset that Griffiths wasn’t contributing to rent or other household expenses during his stay, Reid later told investigators, and on Sept. 7 said she wanted him to leave. Reid agreed to drive Griffiths to a Greyhound bus station and buy him a ticket. Malcolm joined them, sitting in the front passenger seat with the couple’s baby in her lap.
Griffiths was sitting in the rear passenger seat, Reid said, and shot at him before he started backing out of the parking lot, according to the warrants. When the father jumped out of the car and tried to run away, Griffiths got out and continued to fire a pistol at him, Reid said….
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