2007-04-10

April 11

April 10, 2007 through May 17, 2007 the Special Crimes Unit worked the murders of three children. The first child was Quionna Jones, 4 months old, who received trauma to her head and was sexually abused.

Quionna’s father Devon Jones, 21, was charged in Randall County with Capital Murder in the death of his daughter.

Quionna Jones, 6 months old, died April 11 at Northwest Texas Hospital after an ambulance took her there the day she stopped breathing. Medical personnel admitted Jones to the pediatric intensive care unit. She was
later placed on life support, but was pronounced dead at 9 a.m. April 11.

The girl was examined and doctors reportedly found she had suffered from physical and sexual abuse, police said. Police arrested Devon Royal Jones, 21, of Amarillo, the same day his daughter died.

He was indicted Sept. 26
and now faces capital murder charges in the death. He remains in the Randall County Jail on a $1 million bond. Randall County Criminal District Attorney James Farren said he would seek the death penalty, if Jones is convicted.