This past Sunday, a Texas woman, Valerie Jackson, was killed along with her husband and six children in their Houston home. The perpetrator was Jackson’s former domestic partner — and abuser — David Ray Conley, who purchased the gun used in the mass killing online. One of the children killed was Conley’s 13-year old son with Jackson, Nathaniel.

Valerie Jackson had been the victim of domestic violence at the hands of Conley, a convicted felon, many times during the duration of their relationship. In the early 2000’s, Jackson told police that Conley had cut her neck, punched her in the face and wrapped an electrical cord around their baby’s neck.

Despite his prior convictions qualifying him for the potential maximum sentence of twenty-five years in prison, the prosecutor in the case instead made a plea deal with the defense. Conley only served five years in prison before returning to the outside — and to his on-again, off-again harassment of Jackson.

Conley’s ex-wife recently told Fox News that Conley had abused her during their marriage, too, and that “If I hadn’t left he probably would have killed me.”

https://www.yahoo.com/health/texas-murders-expose-fatal-link-between-gun-sales-126685684092.html