Two Conyers, Ga., teenage twins are behind bars and facing murder charges for killing their own mother.
Tasmiyah and Jasmiyah Whithead, 16-year-old twin girls, stabbed and bludgeoned their 34-year-old mother, Jarmecca Whithead, only three days after moving back into the mother’s home in suburban Atlanta.
Conyers Police arrested the girls Friday following an investigation that began in January, when the girls’ mother was found dead.
The two are charged as adults with the murder of Jarmecca Whitehead, who was found stabbed to death in her home on Jan. 13.
Conyers Police Chief Gene Wilson said, “That would make the District Attorney feel comfortable charging them as adults. I think that speaks about how vile this act was and how vicious this attack was.”
The girls, who were 15 at the time, initially told police that they discovered their mother dead when they came home. They also told police they flagged down a sheriff’s deputy after they made the gruesome discovery, CBS News said. But police suspected the girls were the perpetrators of this heinous crime from the beginning.
Media reports the two arrests were made after evidence found at the crime scene was processed by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. This evidence directly linked Tasmiyah and Jasmiyah Whithead to the murder of their mother.
Further investigation reveal that these were two very troubled young girls. Jarmecca Whithead sent the twins to live with their grandmother shortly after she gave birth to them. But last year, the twins became too much for their grandmother to handle. So she sent the twins back home to live with their mother Jarmecca and her boyfriend.
Reports of frequent clashes dominate the brief time the three were together, according to the neighbors. – terry shropshire
