BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Bradford County Sheriff Gordon Smith said three women in a single-wide south of Lawtey Correctional Institution are dead after an apparent domestic dispute.
Johnnie Bernard Brown, 46, was booked into the Alachua County jail on three counts of second-degree murder Tuesday morning.
Smith said the three victims were 25-year-old Wynshay Roddy, Danesha Sims, 27, and Quinqune Robinson, 49.
Smith said Robinson was the mother of the other two victims, and the suspect was Robinson’s boyfriend.
The sheriff said the county received a 911 hang-up call at 2:03 a.m. Deputy Lakeisha Lewis responded to the call and discovered Brown in the front yard, bleeding from an injury.
As Sergeant Logan Hough arrived on the scene to assist, an 11-year-old girl came out of the mobile home and told Lewis that three family members were in the home deceased.
Hough then went inside the trailer and discovered the three victims in a back room of the structure. Smith said the door of the room appeared to have been breached, and one of the victims had a knife in her hand.
“It looks like maybe they tried to run and hide for cover,” he said.
The sheriff said that neighbors told deputies that residents of the home on Northeast 17th Avenue had been arguing all day.
Brown was initially transported to UF Health Shands in Gainesville and, after release, was arrested by Alachua deputies and transported to the Gainesville lockup.
Smith said the child, who may have suffered a wound from a bullet grazing her, was treated for the injury and released. She was then interviewed by the University of Florida’s Child Protection team.
Smith said additional charges are pending and that State Attorney Brian Kramer is advising the sheriff’s office during the investigation.
