The mother of Khaliyah Jones, 18, repeatedly warned her daughter to stop dealing with her former boyfriend, who had threatened her and the family on several occassions.

“I said, Kaliyah, loving him is going to kill you,” Bridgette Jones told local station WSB-TV. “And he killed her.”

Bridgette Jones told the news outlet that the man who allegedly shot her daughter called her right after the incident. 

“He called me and he was screaming. He said, ‘Mrs. Jones! Mrs. Jones!’ And ‘Baby wake up. Baby wake up,’” Jones said. “And I said, ‘Cameron, you shot her.’”

According to the Fayetteville, Georgia, Police Department, Sunday, July 16, 2023 at 11 p.m., police were called out to a kidnapping in progress at a local WingStop restaurant. Dispatchers from 911 advised officers that a man had entered the restaurant and taken his ex-girlfriend, an employee of the restaurant, at gunpoint.

"We had several 911 callers who called in and advised that a male subject had come inside the location brandishing a gun and took control of a female employee,"Capt. Chad Myers of Fayetteville Police Department told reporters.

 The suspect reportedly was driving a red Chevrolet Camaro with officers hot on his trail.

The incident happened one year to the day that Hopkins allegedly did the same thing -- abducting Khaliyah at gunpoint on July 17, 2022 in a Walmart parking lot after breaking her car window. At the time, police said that Hopkins was upset that Khaliyah had threatened to end the relationship.

This time around, when officers responded to the WingStop, they just missed Hopkins and Khaliyah. When police spotted the vehicle a short distance away, a car chase ensued, which spanned from Fayette County to Clayton County.

Officers had to perform a PIT maneuver to stop Hopkins' vehicle. When the pursuit ended and the vehicle stopped, police said that the suspect fired several shots at officers as well as inside the vehicle, purportedly striking the victim. 

"From the officer's perspective, he was able to see and hear gunshots inside of the vehicle," Capt. Myers said.

After officers fired an irritant into the vehicle of the suspect, he exited the vehicle and surrendered, according to police. Khaliyah was found shot multiple times in the car and pronounced dead at the scene.

Hopkins now faces charges of murder, aggravated assault and possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime.

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