H/T to Chris at CrimeShadows News for this one. More information ate link.
Law Enforcement in Oklahoma have issued an Amber Alert for a seven-year-old girl from Geronimo and are looking for her as well as the man they assume kidnapped her and murdered her mother.
Aja Daniell Johnson is seven-years-old, with brown hair and eyes. She is reportedly bipolar and also has a medical condition which requires regular attention. Aja, pronounced Asia, is about 4’ and 65 lbs.
The man named in the search is 46-year-old Lester Hobbs. He is 5’9”, 185 lbs, has brown hair and eyes, a receding hairline and many tattoos. While the photo above shows him with a goatee officials say that now he just has the mustache. Hobbs is a convicted felon and most likely is carrying the gun that he killed 37-year-old Tonya Hobbs, the mother of Aja. He is possibly headed toward Davenport, Oklahoma where he has family and may be driving a 1992 two-door white Toyota Paseo with OK license number 577-BPW with no hubcaps and plastic covering the rear passenger window.
Lester Hobbs allegedly beat Tonya Hobbs to death in his RV which was parked in Geronimo at some point last night. They were visiting Hobbs at his sister’s house in Geronimo. Update – While the ME’s office hasn’t determined the official cause of death the documents charging Hobbs with murder say that Tonya Hobbs suffered blunt force trauma to her body.
Besides somewhere in Oklahoma police also say that Hobbs may be headed to California, Oregon or Texas.
Updated 1/27/10 – Some of the updates are highlighted in the entry proper.
Lester Hobbs was officially charged with Murder on Tuesday. He and Aja Johnson have still not been found.
Apparently back in August Tonya Hobbs sought an order of protection against Lester Hobbs, writing in the petition that he had threatened her daughters and vowed to kill her if she ever left him. An emergency protective order was granted but dismissed two weeks later when she failed to show up for court.
Tonya Hobbs took both of her daughters to Geronimo on Saturday in an attempt to make up with Lester Hobbs, leaving her eldest daughter with relatives there in town.
Updated 3/30/10 – It’s a pretty sad end to this terrible tale. Police have located the bodies of Lester Hobbs and his step-daughter Aja Johnson deceased in a car in Norman, Oklahoma off of state highway 9.
Police say they have found what may be a suicide note in the car and it sounds like they died shortly after disappearing back in January. You can read more here and here.
