Ja’ Shawn Powell
New Orleans, LA – Two and a half years ago, a woman gave birth to a little boy and named him Ja’ Shawn. Ja’ Shawn’s father didn’t seem to show much interest in being a daddy, as he never visited him. Of course, the courts expect fathers to help with the raising of their children at least financially, even when the extent of their parental involvement was a single sperm donation, and recently Danny Platt was ordered to pay child support. Apparently this caused Platt to cogitate on his hopes, dreams, desires, and the course of his future, and Friday, for the first time ever, the 22-year-old picked up Ja’ Shawn for a weekend visit. You might guess that Platt had decided it was time to step up to the plate, get to know his son, and be a good father to him, but guess what? You’d be completely wrong.
A bit over two hours after Platt picked up Ja’ Shawn, he made a call to the boy’s mother Daniella Powell that went something along the lines of “Your son has been kidnapped, bye.” Subsequent phone conversations led to the police being notified of the boy’s apparent abduction. According to Platt, three black males with AK-47s mistook him for someone named “Johnny,” insisted he owed them money, took Ja’ Shawn, and drove away in a Chevy Tahoe-like vehicle. Police issued an announcement regarding the missing boy and began searching in the area near where the abduction was said to have occurred.
At a playground not far from where the boy supposedly went missing, Ja’ Shawn’s body was found yesterday. Danny Platt subsequently was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
Although police aren’t releasing details of how the little boy died at this time, the motive is clear: Danny Platt didn’t want to pay child support. In an interview with WWL-TV, Daniella Powell reported that “We went through child support court on December 4. First his dad was ordered to pay $446 in regular child support, and he was ordered to pay me $4,000 in back child support.” Maybe he could’ve handled the monthly payments, but clearly Platt thought that murder was an suitable alternative to $4K in back payments. “He said it’s my fault that he is $4,000 in the hole,” Powell told WWL-TV.
Well played, Danny Platt. Trading in a $4,000 debt for first-degree murder charges. Brilliant.

























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