Mechanics always seem to have the worst cars. Landscapers always need their yards cut. Doctors (used to be) very heavy smokers and not always in the best of health. These are all generalizations but to a point they seem to ring true and I guess you can add another to the list now. Marriage Counselors can be in need of counseling themselves.
Tonya Hunter, a marriage counselor in Cleveland, Ohio, met Maurice Lyons in an anger management class where she was the teacher and he was the student. Right off that probably should have been a clue for her but it was obviously not enough. The two ended up getting married last December after Lyons got out of prison, where he had spent the last three years.
Lyons and Hunter have been separated and Lyons went to Chicago. Recently he threatened to drive down to Cleveland to kill Hunter, who had filed for divorce. He made several threatening phone calls to her. She reported the threat to the Cleveland Police Department. She also had the locks changed at her office.
Lyons already had a warrant out for his arrest. Back in March Lyons punched Hunter at least one time in the back of the head during an argument and then followed Tonya and her son to a barber shop. Lyons threatened her, telling the woman that if he went to jail he was going to come back and kill her. He ended up leading no contest to domestic violence and put on probation. He was supposed to be wearing an ankle monitor and he had also tested positive for drugs. At the time he showed up and killed Tonya Hunter there was already a warrant out for his arrest.
Tonya Hunter was found stabbed to death in her garage Monday after a witness saw Lyons drop Hunter’s four-year-old son off about eight miles from the home. The witness called the police and the little boy told them his mother had been stabbed.
Maurice Lyons was located and arrested later on in the day and is lodged in the Cleveland jail. He has not yet been charged. The little boy was in custody of DFCS until family members can decided who is going to take care of him.
Lyons apparently had quite a record. He served a ten-year stint for carjacking and was arrested several times in Illinois and Missouri between 1989 and 1998.
