Crime & Safety
Funeral Services Held for Teacher, Toddler Daughter
Prince George's County Police say the father of a 2-year-old has admitted killing the child and her mother, an elementary school teacher.
UPPER MARLBORO, MD — The bodies of a mother and her 2-year-old daughter, who were allegedly gunned down by the child’s father, were given a police escort to their final resting place.
Elementary school teacher Neshante Alesha Davis, 26, and her two-year-old daughter, Chloe Nichole Davis-Green, of Fort Washington were shot to death Feb. 2. Prince George’s County Police have charged the toddler’s father, Daron Maurice Boswell-Johnson, 25, of Forestville with murder and he has reportedly admitted his involvement in the mother/daughter homicide.
On Saturday, family and friends gathered to say farewell to the first-year teacher and her daughter at the Ark of Safety Christian Church in Upper Marlboro.
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“It’s terrible,” relative Gregory Barnes told WTOP. “I can’t take a funeral like that. Then they got the baby right on top of her [in the coffin].”
Mother and child were given a police escort to Resurrection Cemetery in Clinton following the church services.
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Davis was a teacher at Bradbury Heights Elementary School in Capitol Heights. According to the school’s website, she taught second grade.
Tiffany Byrd told The Washington Post her son, who was a student in Davis’s class, improved his reading scores with extra help from the teacher.
“She was really kind and very patient,” Byrd said. “Everything she did, she did with extra care and attention.”
Byrd’s son said he and his classmates cried when they were told that their teacher would not be coming back.
Investigators believe Boswell-Johnson went to Davis’ townhome to confront her about child support issues.
According to Maryland online court records, Davis took the suspect to court last year; a paternity test found that Boswell-Johnson was the child’s father. A Prince George’s County judge in December 2015 ordered Boswell-Johnson to pay $600 a month in child support.
He faces two counts of first- and second-degree murder and is being held without bond.
»Screenshot of homicide victims Neshante Alesha Davis and Chloe Nichole Davis-Green from WUSA
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