Vennessa Phillips.Photo:Vennessa Phillips/Facebook
Vennessa Phillips/Facebook
Coweta County Sheriff’s Officebegansearching for Dustin Wednesday morning, claiming that he was wanted for felony murder and “considered armed and dangerous.”
The sheriff’s office said in afollow-up Facebook postthat on Wednesday evening, officers responded to the same location where Vennessa was found dead after Dustin was reported to be there. Dustin “fired” at officers and died when deputies “returned fire and struck” him, the sheriff’s office said in the post.
Dustin, who had five children with Vennessa, allegedly shot her in front of their four-year-old daughter, 11 Alive reported.
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Vennessa’s brother Jeyson Brooks told theTimes-Heraldthat the couple’s relationship was rife with abuse and tension and that Dustin was a “bad habit” for her.
“She didn’t want to give up on him,” he told theTimes-Herald. “She’d given him so many chances because she had such a hopeful heart.”
He also said that Dustin had lured Vennessa into moving to rural Tennessee with him with promises “that never worked out.”
“It was nothing but a living hell for them, living in poverty,” Brooks said, according to theTimes-Herald.
He alleged that Vennessa called the police on several occasions but claimed Dustin would “just run off into the woods” – something that became a “very familiar pattern.”
Brooks said he was finally able to convince Vennessa to move back to Georgia be near her family and she had made the move with her five children about a year before her death.
source: people.com
