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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Tavion Tapscott of Fresno was successful tribunal Wednesday, charged with the execution of 21-year-old Breaja Jones, officials said.
Tavion waived his arraignment timeline and volition instrumentality to tribunal to marque his plea connected Oct. 30.
His bail was acceptable for $1.6 million.
The Fresno County District Attorney says Jones and Tapscott utilized to day and they had a kid together.
Clovis Police accidental Jones was changeable dormant successful her location connected Oct. 19, with their kid nearby.
Tapscott is present charged with murder, discharge of a limb and kid abuse.
The District Attorney says helium was already retired connected bail for different home unit complaint against Jones erstwhile helium went to her location to prime up his things.
Officials accidental they got successful a combat and Tapscott changeable Jones, sidesplitting her.
“That is not that is not unheard of. A batch of the times with abusive situations, there's been aggregate instances of home violence,” Marjaree Mason Center Program Director Leticia Campos said.
Campos says seeing imaginable home unit cases similar this 1 ne'er gets easier.
“It's ne'er casual proceeding stories of what is taking place, however idiosyncratic is being wounded by idiosyncratic that is expected to emotion and attraction for them,” Campos said.
She says the signs of home unit are often subtle; they bash not ever look similar carnal injuries.
“If you're adjacent to someone, whether that is simply a person oregon household member, and you consciousness that they've isolated themselves, that is simply a cardinal indicator,” Campos said.
Campos urges anyone experiencing home unit to telephone their confidential 24-hour hotline astatine 559-233-4357.
She says it’s important to question help, adjacent if you don’t deliberation the unit is precise serious.
“It volition yet worsen. It volition yet escalate. So, close now, possibly it's starting with immoderate verbal abuse, putting you down, calling you names, diminishing your abilities, but fundamentally that continuum of violence… It tin pb to you losing your life,” Campos said.
