COVINGTON — A man who abducted his 14-month-old daughter and killed the child’s mother Saturday night apparently later shot and killed the toddler and himself in a murder-suicide Sunday morning, police said.

According to Sgt. Jack Redlinger with the Newton County Sheriff’s Office, Darian Javaris Bennett, 38, went to his former girlfriend’s home on Chandler Fields Drive in the Fairview Estates subdivision Saturday night where he shot and killed Keashawn Washington, 38, the child’s mother, and also shot Washington’s mother multiple times.

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