Those are the ones that really get me. Especially when kids are involved. They are raised on the warped beliefs and rules that are seemingly based on the Bible. In my beliefs, People who do things under the disguise of Christianity or hide behind it have something extra waiting for them.
The fake world he had created was falling apart. The world that worked for him in using people. Too many of us Christians (and others and women even) trust first, don't judge and then later find out) and think we are to take in, help out, never judge and so on. Sounds to me like he used this as so many of his type do. Only now did her family find out he had a past, etc., I mean she had met him through church hadn't she? Shakeira MAY have been aware of his past and record and not judged and bought his lies about it OR may have not known, just as her family claims to have not known. Then of course he gets a girlfriend on the side and the women find out about each other or Shakeira does and warns the other and confronts more like it I guess. THIS is the point of most relationships where the women now WOULD be looking into him, his past, etc. Things are breaking up for HIM, his fake world of using these women I'm sure for shelter, money and more of course is crumbling and his ex con status is known, etc. He is confronted probably by both separately. He knows they know and have connected and are done with him. Didn't he go to eat with her first?? This could have been an attempt at an "alibi" but I think it more likely it was an effort to convince her of giving him another chance, trying to lie his way out of it, take her to dinner, etc. but it did NOT WORK. And then he knew he'd lost it all and the gig was up. She ends up dead and the other woman and kids shot at, etc.
I am making a lot of assumptions but basing them on what is here and known and it seems like the likely or classic scenario. Sad to call it classic but minus his ex con status, I'd say it isn't when cheaters, uses, manipulators get caught and they lose everything and their woman or in this case women are done with them.
Some years ago I felt it almost wrong to look into someone you just met, not trusting, not fair, judging, etc. but that has long passed. Women or man. When she met him and he was a new bf even before that she should have been vetting him and her parents should have too. We ALL should. Safeguarding yourself and children is NOT being judgmental. Nor is making an INFORMED decision. And not judging and just taking at face value is NOT required to be a Christian so to speak or good person. It certainly doesn't mean you need to date he person, marry him, etc. You or you and your church can help him find a job, maybe his own shelter, etc. And that's all assuming of course this was the scenario. He may have already been working, housed, church going and then she thought him just a good man... STILL a background check would have shown things.
It is a different world these days or perhaps this has always existed but what has changed is the ease and low cost of checking into someone's background and even social media and more and former connections, posts, and using your common sense as to what all that shows.
We have had this case on here only a short time but look at how it hit us. I couldn't have found out a thing about my ex this way that I didn't already know but I had other times in my life I found out something during a relationship or at the end of one that had I just looked into the person more first or not bought into his stories of something that did concern me that I picked up on or found out, I wouldn't have went through what I did. And I wasn't murdered.
And back then it wasn't 100 percent easy but just checking our own State's online court records WAS easy and even more informative then than today but I felt it wrong to do so and judge. Imagine that...
So i'm not judging the women here or being hypocritical, I am pointing such out in hopes one day even one person reads this and decides to do so before dating a person, etc. or their family does. Maybe it is NOT even the scenario here and I have it all wrong, but I still think it is good advice.
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