A Tennessee woman was arrested after her daughter wrote a story in her kindergarten class about her mother shooting at her father during a fight at home.
Kaydra Johnson, 28, was nabbed by deputies from the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office on Monday and charged with 4 counts of reckless endangerment for allegedly firing the gun at their Arlington house while their 4 kids were inside, WREG reported.
Police said they learned of the domestic violence after a faculty counselor at Donelson Elementary tipped off the state’s Department of Children’s Services about potential abuse after the young girl penned a story for sophistication a few fight between her parents that ended with gunshots.
The story paints a vivid picture of the dispute.
“Mother and father got right into a fight. Mom told him to get out because he was smoking an excessive amount of. Father hit mother in the attention. Mother said look what you’ve done,” the girl wrote.
“Mother got the gun from under the bed. I used to be within the lounge, and my sisters and brother were within the room. Mother pulled the gun on father and shot thrice. The bullets hit the wall. Mother told him to sleep in his automobile within the driveway and never to come back back or she’s going to shoot him again.”
When police arrived at Johnson’s home they found her locked out of her house while her 1-year-old and 4-year-old children were inside, police told WREG.
Police forced the garage door open and firefighters checked on the 2 children, who gave the impression to be advantageous after spending an hour and a half alone inside.
Deputies noted several bullet holes within the lounge, bedroom and hallway partitions.
Johnson fessed as much as firing at her husband no less than twice, but told police it was only after he entered the house without her permission after which punched her and hit her with a vacuum cleaner.
Police said she had a cut and bruising round her right eye.
Johnson said three of her children were on the couch and the fourth was in the lavatory when she fired the gun. Her husband was not injured.
Two guns were seized from the house.
Two of her children were placed in custody with their grandmother and two others are with their aunt.
Johnson was released from jail and is scheduled to seem in court on Feb. 23, WREG reported.