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Relative experiencing schizophrenia stabs 1 year old son dead along with 40 year old woman & 10 year old boy

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Ryant Jones, St Helena Parish, Louisiana man experiencing schizophrenia stabs 3 family members dead.
Ryant Jones, St Helena Parish, Louisiana man experiencing schizophrenia stabs 3 family members dead, including sister, Rhonda Powell and her 10 year old son and his own one year old son.
Ryant Jones, St Helena Parish, Louisiana man experiencing schizophrenia stabs 3 family members dead.
Ryant Jones, St Helena Parish, Louisiana man experiencing schizophrenia stabs 3 family members dead, including sister, Rhonda Powell and her 10 year old son and his own one year old son.

Ryant Jones, St Helena Parish, Louisiana man experiencing schizophrenia stabs sister, Rhonda Powell to death along with her 10 year old son, Braylon Powell and his 1 year old son, Hayden Madison. Family allege mental health system failing them. 

A stabbing at a Louisiana family home at the hands of a relative experiencing schizophrenia has led to two children killed along with the mother of one of the children found dead.

The two children, as well as a 40-year-old woman, were found ‘stabbed to death’ when police responded to ‘a domestic disturbance call’ at a home in Amite at around 4:39 p.m. local time on Thursday, Jan, 9, the St. Helena Sheriff’s Office said in a news release

Ryant Jones, 31, the suspect was arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree murder.

‘Mental health system failed him,’ 

The victims were identified as Rhonda Powell, 40, the suspect’s sister, her 10 year old son Braylon Powell along with her one year old nephew, Hayden Madison, the suspect’s son.

‘This was a horrible tragedy,’ said Sheriff Chutz. ‘Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims’ families, all the first responders that worked this tragedy, and the entire community.’

According to a GoFundMe page the originator, Powell’s cousin, Deondra Warner wrote that Jones is a family member with ‘a documented history of schizophrenia’ and claimed he was ‘experiencing a mental health episode at the time of the attacks.

‘Just the day before, he had been brought to a medical center for help and was prescribed new medication. Sadly, the support he needed came too late to prevent this heartbreaking outcome,’ she wrote.

Ryant Jones, St Helena Parish, Louisiana man experiencing schizophrenia stabs 3 family members dead.
Pictured victims, 1 year old Amirite, Louisiana boy, Hayden Madison and 10 year old Amirite boy, Braylon Powell.

Warner told WAFB that family had taken in Jones after doctors refused to commit him at their request after he showed ‘signs of aggression.’

‘She pleaded with or implored that the doctor give him the shot which usually works. Instead, the doctor gives him a pill,’ she told the outlet.

‘No one in that home survived because the mental health system failed him,’ Warner continued. “Had he been committed, he would be where he needed to be today, and my other family members would be alive.’

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