{"id":8133,"date":"2022-05-11T00:42:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T00:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02a0dbaa000027e0"},"modified":"2025-02-26T01:34:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T01:34:39","slug":"man-murders-his-2-kids-and-girl-friend-then-kills-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2022\/05\/11\/man-murders-his-2-kids-and-girl-friend-then-kills-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"MAN MURDERS HIS 2 KIDS AND GIRL FRIEND, THEN KILLS HIMSELF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eschod Ewing-Meeks, 26, shot and killed his partner Ashton Brown, 26, and their two children, Bella, 4, and Brixx who was just 8 months old. The family was tragically murdered in Davie County, NC on April 20, 2022.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/.image\/c_fit,h_600,w_600\/MTg5MzkyOTc5NzM0MDQ2NjEz\/1untitkled.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>On April 20, 2022 the family was seen entering a sheriff&#8217;s department for unknown reasons. Eschod and Ashton spoke to officials about unknown matters, the family then left.<\/p>\n<p>30 minutes later Ashton called 911 to report an unknown emergency referencing safety precautions. A deputy was suppose to call Ashton back per her request in the 911 call. It is unclear if a deputy called Ashton back.<\/p>\n<p>Later that day Eschod shot and killed Ashton and his two children Bella and Brix in their home. Eschod then lit the family&#8217;s home on fire, and then shot and killed himself. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/news\/missing-black-woman-found-dead-boyfriend-charged-with-murder\">A man was charged with the murder of his girlfriend, 21-year-old Denee Rawls<\/a><\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MTg5NDA1MjgxNTk0MTI0MjU2.webp\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Ashton was a school teacher and had been dating Eschod since 2014. They met in college. Ashton played softball and Eschod played football.<\/p>\n<p>The two moved to Davie County and had 2 kids together.<\/p>\n<p>Eschod was hospitalized last year due to extreme paranoia, nightmares, and other trauma. He had several concussions from playing football. Eschod&#8217;s brain will be scanned for CTE. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/news\/man-accused-of-murdering-his-pregnant-girlfriend-and-her-2-year-old-son\">A suspect was accused of murdering his girlfriend and her son<\/a><\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MTg5NDA1MzA5Nzc5ODQ3MDYx.webp\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/news\/man-arrested-in-neck-brace-after-girlfriend-shot-to-death-in-vacation-cabin\">28-year-old Tatina Buddington was shot and killed on vacation, her boyfriend is charged with murder<\/a><\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MTg5NDA1MzMyMDU5OTg5OTA5.webp\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashton Brown and her children were murdered in a violent shooting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[338,342,152,266,273,413,497,16,14,488,54,489,157,340,444,215,216,57,83,750,690,56,308,485,309,187],"class_list":["post-8133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-baby","tag-baby-dead","tag-children","tag-children-killed","tag-children-murdered","tag-children-shot-at","tag-deadly-shooting","tag-family","tag-female-victim","tag-head-shot","tag-homicide","tag-kid-shot","tag-kids","tag-kids-killed","tag-marriage","tag-mother","tag-mother-dead","tag-murder","tag-parents","tag-quadruple-homicide","tag-quadruple-shooting","tag-relationship","tag-shot","tag-shot-in-the-head","tag-shots-fired","tag-woman-killed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17754,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133\/revisions\/17754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}