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Spurned lover shoots two children then kills himself in Atlanta
Richard Stephen Johnson, 31, a part time hotel waiter, shot his girlfriend's two children Marvin Antonio Woodard 3 and Reginald Cook Jr. 5 before taking his own life as police surrounded his DeKalb County apartment. The children's mother Brenda Jarrett 20, Johnson's former girlfriend, had been seeing another man.
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Reginald Cook
Atlanta
Richard Johnson
Richard Stephen Johnson
Marvin ‘Antonio Woodard
DeKalb County
Johnson
Brenda Jarrett