MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Breaking their silence for the
first time, the family of an apparent murder-suicide in Milledgeville is
speaking out about the deaths and domestic violence.
According to the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office, Travis Anderson
shot and killed Jalisa Scott before turning the gun on himself. Jalisa
and Travis dated for a while and had a 6-month-old son; the son was in
the apartment at the time of the shooting. He was not harmed. Jalisa's
mother Janice said her daughter moved into the apartment after breaking
up with Anderson.
"They had broken up, she still wanted him to have a relationship with
his son," Janice said, "not with her but with his son, that's what she
was trying to allow him to do."
But Janice believes Travis wanted more. The night before Jalisa was
murdered; she stayed with at her brother's house. Jalisa never said why,
but Janice believes Travis had something to do with it.
However, there
was never any inclination that the relationship was violent.
"I thought he was old fashioned," Janice said, "but there were never any signs, or at least she never told me anything."
When Jalisa returned to her apartment the next day, there was a
confrontation between her and Travis. Jalisa called her family over;
when they arrived there were gunshots. Jalisa's sister and brother tried
to break in the window to get to her but it was too late. The window on
her apartment remains boarded and there appear to be bullet holes in
the upstairs window. Janice later found a number to a domestic violence
hotline in her daughter's apartment.
"She never said or mentioned anything," Janice said, "at least not to me."
She's now forgiven her daughter's killer and hopes to share her story.
"It's not gonna bring Jalisa back," Janice said, "it's not going to bring Travis back."
But maybe, she said, sharing the story will help someone else. She
hopes anyone in a violent relationship will reach out to someone, before
it's too late.
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