A kindergartener's writing leads to a mother's arrest for a domestic shooting incident.
Kaydra Johnson, 28, was arrested by police officers from the Shelby County Sheriff's Office.
Following the arrest, the mother of four was charged with four counts of reckless endangerment for allegedly firing the gun at their house in Arlington while their four children were inside.
Mother arrested following school assignment
According to the New York Post, a concerned school counselor from Donelson Elementary reported to law enforcement authorities after they saw one child write something about witnessing a shooting inside their household.
School administrators immediately alerted the state's Department of Children's Services about potential abuse.
The young girl wrote a story about a fight that broke out between her parents and ended with shots being fired as her contribution to the class assignment.
The argument was depicted in a manner that was very clear in the narrative that the child wrote.
WREG reported that the child wrote that her mother and father had a disagreement. She said that her mother had instructed her father to leave the house because of his excessive smoking.
The child also wrote that her father punched her mother in the eye, which prompted her mother to react by asking her husband to take a look at what he had done to her.
Furthermore, the girl described what seemed to be a memory of a shooting incident.
She said she was in the living room, and her brother and other sisters were in the bedroom when she saw their mother get a gun under the bed.
She added that the gunshots hit the walls of their house. She said her mother told her father to sleep in his car in the driveway and not to come back, or she would shoot him again.
Kaydra Johnson's arrest for a domestic shooting incident
The police were alerted about a potential domestic violence case at Johnson's residence. Upon arriving at the scene, they found Johnson locked out of her house with her two children, 1- and 4-year-old, inside.
The police, concerned for the safety of the children, forced open the garage door to gain entry into the house.
Firefighters were called to the scene to check the children's well-being and ensure they were not in danger. To their relief, the children appeared to be fine after spending an hour and a half alone in the house.
Fox News reported that the police noticed several bullet holes in the walls of the living room, bedroom, and hallway, indicating a violent incident.
Johnson confessed to firing at least twice at her husband, explaining that she had acted in self-defense after he entered the house without her permission and physically attacked her.
Johnson reported that her husband punched her and hit her with a vacuum cleaner, resulting in cuts and bruises around her right eye.
The mother further stated that three of her children were on the couch, and the fourth was in the bathroom at the time of the incident.
Her husband was not injured, and the police seized two guns from the house as part of their investigation.
Two of Johnson's children were placed in the custody of their grandmother, while the other two were with their aunt. Kaydra Johnson is scheduled to appear in court on February 23.
