The bodies of rapper Juvenile’s daughter Jelani, 4, her mother, Joy Deleston, 39, and Deleston’s daughter Micaiah, 11, were found Thursday night in their home in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Deleston’s 17-year-old son Anthony Tyrone Terrell, Jr. is being charged with the murders.
“It really shocked him and devastated him to the point where I’ve never seen him before,” said Juvenile’s manager, Aubrey Francis to the Associated Press. “Right now he is relaxing and trying to grasp everything of what has happened.”
Because of Terrel’s age, prosecutors cannot seek the death penalty against him. A preliminary hearing will be set next week in Gwinnett County Superior court, according to prosecutor Danny Porter. Currently, no motive has been announced in the killings.
Deleston filed a paternity suit in 2004, claiming that Juve was Jelani’s father. The case was resolved peacefully by consent order in 2006, as both parties agreed the rapper was the father. According to Francis, Juvenile had bveen making regular child support payments.
Deleston was an actress, in addition to having seven-and-a-half
years of experience in the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office, according
to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
