Tishwanda Reynolds, 19
IN, Lake Co.
November 8, 2010
Tishwanda's murder has left her 7mo old Son to grow up not knowing his Mother
Tishwanda was strangled in her bed by her ex-boyfriend, Marcus Matthew II, after she denied his sexual advances.
Tishwanda’s 7 month-old son was in the room at the time of her death.
No charging or trial information could be found as of February 2013.
Source:
ICADVINC.org - Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence - 2009-2010 & 2010-2011 Statistics from ICADV Member Programs - 2009-2010 & 2010-2011 DV Deaths - 2009-2010 DV Fatality Review
I usually don't leave comments on these pages because I'd never get them up if I did, I have so much to say about almost every single one of them! This one I feel really lead to doing so though, because what happened to Tishwanda is so close to what happened to my son and I before we escaped to a DV Shelter from my husband that it really hits home...
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My husband too didn't like the fact that I denied his sexual advances because our 2 1/2yr old son was in our water bed sleeping beside me...he took care of that by taking him and slamming him back first into the wall across from the bed. I see it in slow motion in my head, him seeming to stick to the wall for a moment, his surprised facial expression, him slowly going down the wall and landing on the floor face up. Him not moving with his arms and hands off the floor, as if to be picked up, mouth and eyes open wide, not making a sound. Him not making a sound is what scared me most of all...
By the time I got up and attempted to get to him my husband was able to get me into a sleeper hold and put my head into the wall, wrestle me to the bed and proceed to rape me. Thankfully by then my son was crying and I knew at least he was alive, and I figured if I at least let him have what he wanted I could get to my son faster...and that I'd live through it to do so...
I could have been Tishwanda...I could have been so many of the women on these pages so many different times as I look back...We as Survivors have been gifted a continued life while so many's lives have been taken away...
Prayers going out to Tishwanda's little one and her family!!! Know that she wont be forgotten!!!
~Angel Hugz~
Tracy
Thank you Tracy, we her family hopes with the sharing of Tish story it will help someone else, pay attention to the signs because they are always present
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