Johnnie Brown, right, is accused of killing his longtime partner, Quinqune Robinson, and her two adult daughters Denesha Sims and Winshay Roddey at their Lawtey, Florida, home on March 12, 2024. (Bradford County Sheriff’s Office)
A Florida man allegedly killed his longtime partner and her two adult daughters during in altercation in their mobile home.
An 11-year-old girl called 911 around 2 a.m. Tuesday to report a disturbance at her home in Lawtey, which is roughly halfway between Jacksonville and Gainesville. There was screaming in the background and the call got disconnected a couple times. A dispatcher called the number back and the girl answered. The dispatcher asked what was going on and if she needed help.
“Yes. Come now,” she said in the call, obtained by Law&Crime. “Just come.”
Deputies with the Bradford County Sheriff’s Office arrived and found carnage inside. They located three women later identified as Quinqune Robinson, 49, and her two adult daughters Denesha Sims, 27, and Winshay Roddey, 25, dead in a bedroom.
Out in the front yard they encountered 46-year-old Johnnie Brown who had several cuts on his upper left arm. According to a probable cause arrest affidavit, he told detectives that he and Robinson were in an argument that turned physical. He said Sims and Roddey came at him with knives and he grabbed a firearm and started firing at all three women. He said the women began running away and he “went mad” and continued to fire at them.
The girl, who was struck by bullet shrapnel, later told investigators that Brown started “hurting” her grandma and two aunts and “Grandpa said they should have stayed out of it.”
Deputies found three knives in the bedroom. Sims held on to one in her right hand “with her arms crossed across her chest in a defensive fashion” and appeared to be hiding behind a chair, the affidavit said. Investigators also allege that Brown fired through a closed and locked bedroom door from outside the room.
Cops took Brown to the hospital to treat his injuries and later arrested him on three counts of second-degree murder and took him to the Bradford County Jail where he’s being held without bond.
Bradford County Sheriff Gordon Smith said in an interview with Jacksonville TV station WJXT that “evil struck our county” Tuesday morning.
“The whole situation is just tragic,” he said.
Smith also talked about the bravery of the girl who called 911.
“Let me tell you she’s a strong little young lady,” he told the outlet. “She’s so resilient but at the end of the day what long-term effect does this have on this young child and now being taken out of her environment where she knew? This emotional situation she’s been placed, it’s very traumatic. I think she’s very resilient. She’s got plenty of people around her to love her through this process but the days to come it’s going to be tough not only for her but the rest of the family members.”
