A Leon County woman who had just returned home after giving birth is shot to death and three children hiding in a back room heard the whole thing. They called 9-1-1 and even tried to revive her.
Sergeant Tony Drzewiecki of the Leon County Sheriff's Office says, "They heard her plead for her life - telling the gunman that she had just given birth and they had to listen to all of it."
Drzewiecki says three children, ages 10, 12 and 16, described the horror of listening to 32 year-old Tanesha Overstreet beg for her life then hearing 33 year-old William Yawn shoot her to death early Sunday morning in her home on Wren Drive in Leon County. The 10-year-old was Overstreet's son.
"While they weren't able to actually see what was going on, they could hear every bit of it," explains Drzewiecki.
One of Overstreet's neighbors who didn't want to be identified says Overstreet had just returned from the hospital about 7 or 8 hours before the shooting. She had given birth to a premature baby who is still in ICU at the hospital and was on pain medication after a c-section.
The neighbor says, "I don't think there were illegal drugs or activity. I think it was strictly you know the pain medication that this man apparently was after."
The sheriff's office says they did not find illegal drugs in Overstreet's home and she has no local criminal record, but reports show that Overstreet's boyfriend may have been involved with drugs. Yawn confessed he went to Overstreet's home looking for drugs, robbed her of crack cocaine and shot her with a shotgun.
Yawn was released from prison in March for multiple robberies, and after his first appearance Monday (8/18/08) morning, he's being held in the Leon County jail without bond.