An Ohio ex-con is back to jail after murdering his new girlfriend and telling her child she “was taking a nap,” last Friday.
Shanika Bogan, 31-year-old, was found dead inside her Dayton home where her two sons, ages 4 and 10, were present.
28-year-old Kendall Beasley was arrested a week later after Bogan’s oldest child told police he was the killer.
“The suspect told my oldest grandson, ‘I’m going to give your mama a massage,” the grieving grandmother said.
“I know he went in the bedroom and shut the door and he came out told my grandson, ‘She’s taking a nap – get yourself some cereal to snack on and I’ll be back’ and left.”
She added: “It’s unbelievable that it really happened. Shanika wouldn’t hurt a fly. She was set up basically in kind of a blind date type of situation.”
Dayton Police Lt. Jason Hall described the incident as an “intentional killing.”
“We still have a lot of work to do on the motive end of that. We are trying to piece together the events that occurred but I don’t have an answer for that right now.”
