A DeKalb family’s tale of two dead bodies and a crying baby girl

Monique wailed as she drove.

A neighbor heard her.

“I’m looking for 2659, 2659,” she pleaded to the neighbor, who pointed the way.

Finally at 2659 Parkway Trail, Monique heard the sound of a baby crying. No one would come to the door.

Monique and her boyfriend were desperate.

The boyfriend smashed a window.

On the couch, they found 8-month-old Treajure Myles, alone. At the foot of the stairs, the child’s mother, who was Monique’s niece, lay bloodied with a gunshot wound to the head.

In the master bathroom upstairs, Monique saw Tasharina’s body on the floor by the toilet. She had also been shot in the head, according to police.

Monique was inconsolable. She wanted to do CPR, but there was so much blood.

When authorities arrived, she mentioned her sister’s boyfriend, Michael Thornton.

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DeKalb County police soon charged him with murder in the deaths of Tasharina and her 25-year-old daughter, Janazia Myles.

Monique believes Thorton killed them while Tasharina was breaking up with him.

“He knew he had to leave,” Monique told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Monday. “She (told me) he’s a good guy, but he’s not right for her.”

Thornton told a different story after surrendering.

He said the victims “jumped” him when he walked in the house, according to the police report.

The gun “just went off,” he said.

The sound scared him and he ran out of the house, he said.

Monique quickly brushed off that story as impossible, particularly because of how the bodies were found.

Police also allege Thorton pulled the trigger on purpose.

The thought of him doing that to Tasharina of all people shocks Monique. She said Tasharina, who worked in patient accounts at Emory, was good to Thorton, helped him get by as he struggled to find steady work and she even thought of letting him stay at her home while he found a place to go after the break up.

This was Tasharina: thinking of everybody else.

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She called to check on her mother religiously. She called Monique to make sure she was taking care of herself. Tasharina doted on the kids and her five grandkids, including that crying little girl on the couch, Treajure.

Had she lived, Tasharina was planning a trip to see another baby grandchild for the first time.

Tasharina’s influence showed in Janazia's mothering skills.

“She was a good mother just like her mom was,” Monique said of Janazia, who worked as a home health aide and leaves behind a twin.

The list of those mourning the slain mother and daughter goes on and on, Monique said.

For her, the grief is relentless.

Through sobs so strong they cut off her words, she confessed that she can’t sleep or eat, that her head pounds and her stomach is in knots thinking back to the crime scene.

“We love them,” Monique said. “We’re just trying to get through this.”

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