An Olivette, Missouri man was arrested after he fatally shot his mother, police said.
The lawyer of 25-year-old Jaylen Johnson insisted the man mistook his mother, Monica McNichols-Johnson, for an intruder as she made her way through the back door of their residence in the 9600 block of Huron Drive on Thursday morning.
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Johnson, who now faces manslaughter charges, immediately called the police as his girlfriend tended to the dying woman.
“He hasn’t stopped crying,” lawyer William Goldstein said adding that his client was a college football player, employed, with no criminal history, and with a “bright future” ahead of him.
“He’s just a sweetheart of a kid.”
