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Two women identified after apparent double homicide in Prince George’s County She helped bail him out of jail. Days later, police say, he killed her.
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Two women, both in their 20s, were shot and killed in Prince George’s County in what police are calling a double homicide that does not appear to be a random act. No one has been arrested. A woman found fatally shot in her apartment along with her stepsister was killed by a man she had helped get released from jail on domestic-related assault charges less than one week earlier, according to police and prosecutors.
Police identified Tareeka Jones, 26, of Cheverly, and Jalisa Walls-Harris, 22, of Bowie, as the victims. Twelve hours after police secured a warrant for the man’s arrest in Monday’s double slaying, authorities found him dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The incident happened around 10:30 p.m. Monday in the 6500 block of Landover Road in Cheverly. Police were called to the area for a report of the sound of gunfire. When they arrived, they found two women suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. The killings of Tareeka Jones, 26, and Jalisa Walls-Harris, 22, constitute the second domestic-related homicide case in Prince George’s County this week. Police said that the suspect, Kevin Tyrice Reynolds, 30, was romantically linked to Jones and the father of one of her children.
Both women were pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Cheverly Police Department. The incident happened around 10:30 p.m. Monday in the 6500 block of Landover Road in Cheverly. Police called for a report of gunfire found Jones and Walls-Harris suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
Officials with the county’s police department are investigating. Police said in a statement that a preliminary investigation found that “a suspect shot both women and then fled the apartment.” Both women were pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to call 301-772-4925. After the shootings, Reynolds fled, police said, and was found dead in Hanover County, Virginia, around 10 a.m. the next morning.
Court records indicate Reynolds was arrested March 1 on assault, gun and theft charges dating to Feb. 10 in Prince George’s County. Reynolds was dropping off their daughter when he rushed toward Jones and threw her to the ground, according to police charging documents in the earlier incident. Reynolds began to “toss and drag” Jones and pointed a gun at her, saying, “‘You are going to get what you are going to get,’” charging documents state.
When Reynolds was arrested weeks later, Jones appeared at his bond review hearing and said she didn’t want to go forward with the charges, disputing officers’ accounts of events, said John Erzen, a spokesman for the Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s Office. Reynolds was being held without the chance for bond but a judge then reduced it to $20,000. Jones posted the $2,000 needed to bail him out, Erzen said.
Less than a week later, Jones and her stepsister were dead.
Jones was the mother of young children and did what she could to provide for her family, according to one of her relatives, who declined to be named for privacy reasons.
“She was a hardworking young lady making things happen for her and her kids,” the family member said. “She was a really good mom.”
Walls-Harris’s mother said her daughter was visiting Jones.
“She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time,” said Lashawn Harris, Walls-Harris’s mother.
Harris said her daughter had dreams of becoming a singer, who sang in the choir at church and in high school, and planned to audition for a performance of Aladdin in coming days.
“When she first started singing, she went to an audition at Howard [University] and sang ‘A Whole New World’ ” when she was 7, Harris said. “We thought this was full circle and maybe she’d get the part this time.”
Dana Hedgpeth contributed to this report.