Nurse Marries Convict in Prison — Then He Killed Her After She Had His Baby

Nurse Marries Convict in Prison — Then He Killed Her After She Had His Baby

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And that was nowhere near the beginning of his record.

Going back as far as 1994, >> >> his history covered substance possession, robbery with a dangerous weapon, and multiple parole violations.

But Moses had something working in his favor that most men on the outside could not match.

Time.

And complete undivided focus on Kanesha.

No distractions.

No competing obligations.

Just hours of carefully crafted messages, long phone calls, and the kind of relentless attention that can feel like everything when you have been carrying the weight of life alone.

He told her he wanted to take her out.

When she pointed out he was locked up, he set up a FaceTime date and sent her the money for it.

In her own words, she wrote, “He hit me on Facebook like, let me take you out, knowing dang well he was incarcerated.

>> >> He took me out over FaceTime, sent the money and everything.

Those dates became our moments.

” Those FaceTime evenings turned into regular calls.

>> >> The calls turned into prison visits and the visits turned into something Kenisha began describing to the world as a love story.

Her friends raised questions.

Her family had concerns.

But Kenisha had already made her decision and she was not interested in being talked out of it.

She brought her daughters along on some of those visits, introduced Moses to them as a meaningful presence in her life and was all the way in, emotionally and publicly, while he was still behind bars.

On December 17th, 2021, Kenisha Miranda got married inside the walls of a correctional facility.

The moment it was done, she took to Facebook.

“I am married now.

Today, I married the man I did not have to give a million chances to because he saw my worth from the beginning.

I love you.

It is God, you and I, baby.

Mrs.

Neely.

” “I have you when no one else may not have you and that is law.

” The post kept coming after that.

30 days in, she wrote, “Yes, I am extra and yes, we are celebrating every milestone.

Happy 30 days of marriage.

In our situation, it is definitely not the easiest, but we do this and if I had to do it all over again, I still would choose you, the love of my life, my best friend, my business advisor.

Valentine’s Day 2022 arrived with Moses still incarcerated.

Kanesha posted about their relationship that day.

Writing about how it was always a quiet competition between them over who could do more for the other.

She acknowledged he was away.

>> >> Said what she was sending was part of his Valentine’s Day gift.

Thanked him for being the man she knew she deserved.

And said she was looking forward to what she called their last year apart.

And so many more years together.

She also took it a step further.

She hired a performer named Shanice to record a personal video message to Moses on her behalf.

In that message, Shanice told Moses that Kanesha appreciated him.

Called him an amazing man and an amazing father.

>> >> To children he had never lived with.

In a home he had never once set foot inside.

>> Hey Maurice, I’m Shanice and Kanesha wanted me to wish you a happy Valentine’s Day.

And she wants you to know that she appreciates you.

You’re an amazing man, an amazing father.

You are her best friend and she loves everything about you.

Loving you.

It’s easy cuz you’re beautiful.

La la la La la la La la la la la la la la la la la la la la Do do do do do do do do do do do do do >> [screaming] >> Bye.

>> Kanesha was already positioning Moses as a father figure to her daughters before he had spent a single day under the same roof with any of them.

Father’s Day 2022 came around with Moses still behind bars.

She booked a stay at the Showboat Hotel in Atlantic City.

A trip that totaled $870.

For a man sitting in a prison cell who had contributed nothing financially to the household she was running alone.

Kanesha posted, “Happy Father’s Day to my kids’ father and my husband.

You provide support, protection, and love to them.

They know they can depend on their father.

They may not be yours biologically, but you have stepped up from day one.

We love you, and this is the last Father’s Day we will have to celebrate apart.

So, I paid for your first trip on me.

This is all you have been talking about, rental and hotel.

And yes, I upgraded all the packages for the king you are.

” When people started reaching out to Moses looking for things, Kanesha stepped in publicly to defend him.

“Let us be real.

I do not like when you all ask my husband for anything and he is locked down.

You all did not visit or make sure any of his kids were taken care of the entire time he was gone.

The nerve.

I am big on loyalty, and you had 13 years to show your loyalty.

Signed, his wife.

” She was shielding a man she had never once shared a home with from the people who were seeing things she was not ready to see.

Moses was released in late 2022.

Kanesha had relocated from Memphis to Hoffman, North Carolina by then.

And she welcomed him into the home she had built.

She had been counting toward this moment for years.

>> I am happy to see my husband.

I’m happy.

I’m happy to see my husband.

I’m happy.

I’m >> By September 2022, they were finally living under the same roof.

She marked it on Facebook.

There is absolutely not another man in this world that can love me like you.

You still give me butterflies after almost 2 years and headaches.

But you will never have to question my loyalty, regardless of how hard it is to love you.

I won’t give up.

Happy 9 months of marriage under the same roof.

She said it herself.

Regardless how hard it is to love you.

The difficulty was not hidden.

>> >> It was right there in plain sight.

But in Kenisha’s framing, it was commitment and was proof of loyalty.

And she had told the world she was not walking away.

Their first anniversary came in December 2022.

And she posted, Happy first anniversary to the best husband in this world.

Every day has not been sunshine, but through this year of learning to know each other, at the end of it, I realized I married my best friend.

And absolutely no one will love me like you do, besides God.

You go so hard to make sure I am happy.

You try to keep me balanced, and when all else fails, I know I have you.

One year down and a lifetime to go.

>> >> I love you.

The posts continued to paint one picture.

But inside the house on McCoy Drive, neighbors had begun hearing something different.

Raised voices and frequent arguments.

Moses had walked into a household that had been functioning without him.

He brought no financial contribution and no clear role.

The tension that grows from that kind of imbalance does not announce itself all at once.

It accumulates quietly.

Kenisha kept posting.

Kept holding up the version of the story she had been telling since 2019.

But the gap between what she shared publicly and what was happening behind closed doors was getting harder to close.

Now, this is where things took a turn that cannot be understated.

In December 2023, deputies from the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office >> >> were called to 185 McCoy Drive following a reported domestic disturbance.

When they arrived, Kenisha told them that Moses had been drinking heavily, turned aggressive, struck her multiple times in the face, and then locked her inside their bedroom refusing to let her leave.

During that struggle, she managed to reach her firearm.

The two fought over it and it discharged striking Moses in the upper thigh.

Deputies arrived to find him wounded.

He was taken to receive medical treatment and upon discharge was arrested and charged with holding her against her will in the second degree, assault on a female, and interfering with emergency communications.

He was held without bond.

Within days of having to fire a weapon to stop her own husband from doing further harm, Kenisha posted his bond >> >> and brought him back home.

Back to the house where her daughters lived.

Back to the same bedroom where it had all just happened.

There was no public post about any of it.

The silence on that chapter was complete.

And then, the social media presence simply resumed as if that incident had never occurred.

But here’s the thing, something had permanently shifted in that house the moment she brought him back.

A line had been crossed >> >> and the response to crossing it had been to bring him home.

Whatever that communicated, intentional or not, it was received by Moses.

In early 2023, Kenisha had announced she was expecting Moses’ child.

But on Valentine’s Day 2023, she shared a very different kind of update.

Yesterday, we lost our child, but we did not lose each other.

No one said this journey would not have its ups and downs, but I would not want to go through life’s trials with no one but you.

I love you.

Thanks for being everything you are and were in this process.

I married my person.

Yes, I am your forever Valentine.

Even through that loss, >> >> her response was to publicly reaffirm her commitment to Moses and framed the grief as something that had brought them closer.

By early 2024, she was pregnant again.

This time, the pregnancy was high risk from the very beginning.

She developed a serious condition that threatened both her life and the baby’s throughout.

She made it through, and on June 23rd, 2024, Kamai Mare Nevara Nealy was born, 10 weeks before her due date.

Kenisha posted from the hospital the day Kamai arrived.

Happy birthday, Kamai Mare Nevara Nealy, 10 weeks early.

Just continue to pray that she improves.

Kamai spent weeks in the neonatal unit requiring intensive care.

Kenisha split her time between the hospital and home managing a premature infant in medical care, her older daughters, and a household with a man who had demonstrated more than once that stability was not something he was willing to offer.

On July 24th, 2024, Kamari was discharged and finally came home.

Kenesha had survived a dangerous pregnancy, delivered 10 weeks early, and kept showing up at that hospital until her daughter was strong enough to leave.

That moment deserved to feel like nothing but relief.

But the arguments at 185 McCoy Drive had been growing louder and more frequent.

A newborn requiring around-the-clock care had added pressure to an already volatile situation.

The weeks following Kamari’s being brought home were not peaceful ones.

On the morning of August 4th, 2024, Kenesha made a post on Facebook.

She wrote about her children and the people who truly showed up for them.

She said she had stopped letting certain things get to her.

That her kids knew that their mama would step up and that Moses would, too.

She said her side of the family and her friends were always there, and that she had real appreciation for those who showed genuine love for her children, because titles meant nothing if those titles never translated into presents.

At some point that same morning, she called her mother and made arrangements for baby Kamari to be dropped off.

Her older daughters were already at a relative’s home.

Every one of her children was away from that house before anything escalated.

Around 8:15 that morning, the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office received a call reporting a possible disturbance and shots fired at 185 McCoy Drive in Hoffman, North Carolina.

Deputies arrived and began clearing the home.

When they got the door of the master bedroom open, they found both Kenesha and Moses inside.

Both had sustained wounds and neither survived.

Authorities confirmed it was a domestic situation between the two of them.

The investigation continued as medical reports and follow-up work were conducted.

Kamore Marse Nevara Neely was approximately 6 weeks old when she lost both of her parents on the same morning.

On August 13th, 2024, the Hoffman community came together at the Hoffman recreational complex to honor Kanisha’s life.

Her church read a formal resolution.

They described her as genuine, warm, helpful, and motivated.

A woman devoted to her faith who encouraged her daughters to develop their own relationship with God and whose smile was the kind people carried with them long after she had left the room.

>> Church family, let us now understand for assistant Kanisha Miranda Neely.

And God shall wipe away all tears from her eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away.

Revelation 21:4 verse.

We are placed in this world for a limited time.

And with the breath of the infant against the race to the grave, a race everyone must run.

Assistant Kanisha was called into eternal rest on Sunday, August 4th, 2024.

Whereas, in the providence of God, he has brought to close the life of assistant Kanisha, the officers and members of Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church of Hoffman, North Carolina, feel it is befitting to express our sympathy to the family.

She was a member in good standing.

She loved her church and would attend worship services as often as she could.

Sister Kenisha was introduced to God at an early age by her mother and her father.

She has attended Sunday school and was involved in youth programs in the church.

As a mother, Sister Kenisha recognized the importance of God in her life.

Therefore, she encouraged her daughters to know Jesus for themselves.

Sister Kenisha extended her Christian services to her many friends and family.

She was genuine, helpful, loving, and very motivated in everything she did.

She loved planning family gatherings.

We will miss that infectious smile that she would flash when we met her.

To the family, we know that your loss is deep and your sorrow is great, but we want you to know that we share your sorrow.

But more importantly, we recognize this loss is heaven’s gain.

Be it resolved that we bow in humble submission of him who would never make a mistake.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be given to the family and a copy kept in the church archives.

Home we submitted on the 13th day of August 20 August 2024, the officers and members of Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, Hope Mills, North Carolina, Reverend Robert L.

Dawkins, pastor.

>> A family member who had known her for years stood up and shared the unspoken rules that had always defined their relationship.

That they would clash, >> >> that the next day they would act like nothing had happened, and that through all of it, God was always at the center of their conversations.

>> We had three rules.

Number one is every day every time I see you three rules every day I act like family, I act like we ain’t >> >> all of that.

Like it never happened.

Number three >> I’m a >> Another relative remembered her as the one who always reached out first.

Always the one trying to hold the family together.

Trying to pull everyone close.

Said she could find lightness in the heaviest moments.

>> I love Uh we were shooting our happy moments.

So everywhere you see them being church, we were playing Facebook, we were playing.

And that’s what you got to do in life now.

The way the years going now, you got to make light of the situation that’s going on.

She always tried to get us together with family.

See how we got through family and our off.

I don’t think this will be the last time we get together cuz the family’s coming back.

Come and go to the funerals.

And then we go back to life.

Then we back again to the next year.

Yeah, girl, I miss you.

This our family again.

And then we go back again to the next year.

So I mean, she already shipped this wreath instead of all I mean, we got to keep the process going.

The 2024, you know, some people don’t even Our cousin know a lot of people.

I don’t know who they are.

If I look at you five times, I know you somebody, but I don’t know your name.

Maybe that’s my fault.

Maybe that’s your fault.

Who knows? But she was one of the ones that always tried to get the family together.

She tried.

We got together a few times.

She was always that one behind just trying to keep the family connected, you know.

And she was She was a talker.

Did you know her together? Did you know her? You see somebody and say she is.

You realize who she was.

She was a a real special you know, somebody that you knew.

Somebody always you know that’s going to lighten the situation.

And everybody’s a possible closer friend.

We were in the Clayton town for a long time.

And we all grew up coming through one of the schools out here.

So a lot of your classmates put on Facebook and now you see them.

rest of the rest of the rest of the you got a chance to get it right.

You still a boxing right.

This is your time to get to make a person and reach out and say hey I’m checking on you cuz the family going to need you after you go with the funeral and drop them off at the hill.

Everybody can go back to their life.

That’s when you don’t forget about them.

That’s when they need you more.

They don’t need you doing the repast week and that’s what we are known to do to show up, bring food, laugh, eat laugh at the funeral.

We all go back to our normal life.

They going to need you after the process.

That’s the after weeks that will be the hardest to get by because that’s when it start sinking in that you not going to see your loved one again.

So I just want to keep family lifted in your prayers because they going to need it in the days going ahead.

They going to need it.

Yes.

>> Her sister stood up and talked about what it meant to face that loss.

They had traveled together, celebrated each other’s birthdays, and shown up for each other’s children through everything life had asked of them.

>> And to my family I love you all.

I want to say to my family I love you all.

Keneisha was not my cousin, she was my baby sister.

She was like my two baby sisters.

My nickname for her was Boo.

She called me Big Sis.

I’m going to miss her.

And like my little sister said, she touched a lot of us.

She always had a smile no matter what.

And um and I ain’t going to lie, I love y’all.

Not just today, always.

And I love the family.

Thank you.

Those who don’t know me, I am Keneisha’s little sister.

Um I’m definitely going to miss her.

Um she was my only sister, so therefore my heart is really broken from this.

I really don’t know it’s going to take a lot of praying.

I just know we traveled together.

We did almost everything together.

Her birthday, my birthday, the kids birthdays, we was always together.

And I just want y’all to just pray for our family that we would stay It was a lot of times when we weren’t together.

And I’m just praying this this right here brought us back together.

Thank her I want to thank her friends they was always there for her.

Every time I was there they was there.

And I especially want to thank Shanny.

Shiloh Deidra, Lindsay Lindsay, you was the best.

And I I know when I wasn’t there to lend an ear you definitely were.

I hope I didn’t miss anybody.

If I did know know cuz me and Holly talked about being together.

That’s what we did.

Yeah.

The next one I know for sure those people really you know the world world to her.

And God has given me strength to get up here.

Um when I first heard about my sister I felt I was going to have a attack.

But, I asked God to lift that off of me and he did.

>> Amen.

>> So, just keep us in your prayers and and um you have to keep us uplifted and don’t forget about us.

>> Amen.

>> Amen.

>> Then Kenisha’s mother spoke.

She talked about loving her children through every version of themselves.

About letting them grow.

About watching them make choices that were beyond her reach to change.

And about covering them in prayer.

Because sometimes, she said, that is all a mother has left to give.

>> You got that.

But, um To me, she’s a good person.

Yeah, she was a good daughter.

I mean, we had to spend it because Kenisha would say, “Y’all wasn’t getting me.

” She got to have a ball.

But, she was Kenisha was um a loving person.

>> Yes, she was.

>> She always arranged things.

Uh mom, we’re going this way this this week.

Just to let y’all know we all vacation.

Fast forward to snap chat.

Something like getting ready for the vacation.

But, I know the vacation was coming again.

>> Yes, yes.

>> But, um I I love my children.

>> That’s right.

>> I love my grandchildren.

>> Amen.

>> And I tell them about it.

And I love my grandchildren.

I love my children.

>> What about them? >> I let them grow, make mistakes, and know, and pray.

That’s all you can do.

>> When you lose them, you >> You can’t do no more than that.

>> That’s right.

And one day you can you can always do it.

You can always tell them it’s practice.

And I thank God for loving them in this family.

Cuz she was she was a good girl.

She didn’t have no problems.

No problems.

She had some now.

But I I made her respect me.

And I let her know you know it’s best to respect others.

But if you got to say something crazy, don’t say nothing.

Cuz you not wrong.

Cuz they say what they say, you say what you just got to say.

That was my teaching.

So I knew my job.

I basically know all of them.

They like to hide something.

They hide in the bathroom and say it.

But that’s how I knew them.

And my grand children, pray for them.

Pray for my strength.

And I’m going to do the best that I can in front of you.

Yes.

And then I raised them the way that she wanted them to be.

And she wanted to have you right.

Especially over here.

She has helped her.

Helped her.

She’s good.

She’s a good person.

Yeah.

She’s like a mom.

But this is here when you pray for her.

Yes.

Cuz I’m going to need you for her.

And I and I made her do it.

With the baby girl.

I tell you I definitely pray for her.

But all in all I’m standing here to let you know that I thank you for her.

I mean y’all have been so good to me.

In my life.

And that means a lot cuz how she was.

As you know I let the people have their bad days.

Great days.

But the baby girl things for the you know family.

And you know what? That’s about good.

And that’s what God wants us to be.

He wants us to be about good not about hate.

So if one of you need a friend then even if you don’t have to then you can come and say give them the right conversation.

Don’t go along with what they’re doing.

Speak to them what’s right.

And thank you and that’s what God wants us to be.

And I said that’s might be the reason why all these years he didn’t let us get together.

You know he didn’t let us so you we can learn that he wants us to love and not hate.

And if someone in need and if someone he wants us to give it to so y’all just pray especially for me and my family.

Now this is going to take prayer.

You have to be I stand here being strong.

I’m not strong but thank God my mom and dad they raised me about and there’s always a word that you keep in your heart because there’s always something that’s going to happen in life that’s going to throw you off.

And right now I’m going off.

So I’m just asking you to continue to pray for me and sometimes holler at me you don’t have to say Sometimes you don’t want to some people stay away.

I’m going to slow down and this is all I can say.

Thank y’all for all that you have done.

You have to help keep me up and continue to pray for me.

Um from day one you know sometimes you meet friends for 6 months up to a year.

She started as a friend at day one.

You know, we can go to Kanisha, talk to Kanisha about anything.

Whatever we say stays with Kanisha.

Um we just I’m just thankful to be able to stand up here and say thank you because not only did you build a sistership, you have built a village.

And with this village, we’re going to make sure your mom and your kids are okay.

If I could hear Kanisha say anything right now, she’d say, “Sis, don’t you go up there crying and wiping them tears cuz I’m all right now.

You know, I don’t made it where I got to go.

You know, I don’t made it.

Now you got to get yourself together cuz you one day you’re going to make this walk also.

So God, I just want to say thank you to mom, to Katrina.

We love you.

And like I said, this don’t stop today.

This is a village.

If you need anything, we are here to help you, okay? All right, and we love you and everybody who knows the word of prayer, continue to keep on praying for her family in your prayers.

>> Kanisha Murray and Aneely was laid to rest at the Jamison/Harrison Family Cemetery on Hart Street in Hoffman, just minutes from the home on McCoy Drive.

She left behind her older daughters and a baby girl who will grow up knowing her mother only through the voices of the people who loved her most.

These cases spark conversation for a reason.

Be the person to offer help if someone needs it.

Human remains have just been found in the search for a pregnant mother of two abducted from her home on Tuesday.

Those remains were found near an area crews were searching for 27-year-old Andrea Lloyd.

The medical examiner has not positively identified them as those of Lloyd, but arrived at the search scene earlier this evening.

Authorities have detained an ex-boyfriend, but did not reveal his name.

Lloyd is expecting her third child.

Anyone with any information in the case is asked to is asked to call Miami date police.

>> Two days before Andrea Lloyd disappeared, she shared something on her Facebook page.

The people who saw it scrolled past it.

Nobody called to check in.

But when you read what she shared, you will understand exactly what she was trying to say, but no one caught it in time.

Before we get into it, leave a like, drop your thoughts in the comments, and subscribe to Crime on Pulse so you won’t miss the next case.

Andrea Ollet Lloyd was born on December 13th, 1993 in Miami, Florida.

She grew up in Miami Dade County, Laura Sanders Elementary, Campbell Drive Middle School, Homestead Senior High School, and eventually earned her diploma at Maverick’s High School.

She was driven.

She started her working life in retail, but that was never going to hold her.

She found her real calling in caregiving, taking care of people who needed consistent, genuine support.

She joined Sunrise Community and within 3 years, she had worked her way up from caregiver to residential program director, overseeing the care of adults.

Outside of work, Andrea was a mother of two boys, a 1-year-old and 5-year-old.

Her family described her world simply.

She worked and she took care of her kids.

That was it and that was everything to her.

She was deeply connected to her family.

Her parents Arnold and Alfreda Lloyd and a wide circle of people who loved her.

Xavier was 32 years old and he had been in Andrea’s life for 11 years, not months or a couple of years.

That is more than a third of her entire life.

They had two children together, built a shared life, vacations, family events, and everyday moments.

They traveled together, did ordinary couple things, nail salons, outings, family gatherings.

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Read it.

I don’t even know what the top say.

>> Can you read it out loud, please? >> No, I ain’t going to read it out loud.

>> Oh, I scored it.

Where the money at? That already came prepacked.

They wanted, you know.

>> So, you didn’t do this? >> No, I ordered it.

>> Okay.

I open I open >> psych.

>> Psych.

I want to open taste.

>> Open taste.

>> Can you go Bad boy.

Bad boy.

>> Can I see the box? I should have >> I should have put on my clothes.

Maybe.

Maybe a By every visible measure, Xavier was not just her boyfriend, he was her partner in everything.

At some point during their relationship, they did a maternity shoot.

Beautiful black and white photos.

Xavier with his hand on her pregnant belly.

Both of them in white, holding hands, laughing in an open field.

The kind of photos that are supposed to mark the beginning of something beautiful.

Everyone around them saw a happy couple.

Andrea’s family said they had never seen them argue.

Not at gatherings, at family functions, not in any setting they were present for.

Her nephew said their relationship seemed perfect.

When they came around, they were always happy.

But at some point, the relationship that looked so solid on the outside had become something else entirely.

Xavier had become controlling and dominating.

He had been unfaithful to Andrea repeatedly.

And Andrea, who had given this man 11 years, two children, and her full commitment, had reached the point where she was done.

Her aunt described her as someone who had given that relationship everything a marriage would require.

She was, in her words, like a wife, not just a girlfriend.

She had carried this relationship with everything she had and was tired.

She had made up her mind and was planning to leave.

2 days before everything changed, Andrea went on Facebook and shared a post.

not something she wrote herself, a post she came across that clearly spoke to exactly where she was.

It read, “Narcissistic manipulators.

” Let’s get into it.

People who intentionally or unintentionally attack you and hurt you.

Then once they hurt you and you react, they are upset at how you reacted to the intentional or unintentional hurt they did to you.

They try to turn it on you to add more hurtful things to make it seem like you’re the problem or at fault for how they did you when in fact you did absolutely nothing to them to cause their reason for the intentional or unintentional hurt or attack.

Not once will they think to apologize because remember once you reacted to what they did to you, you then became the problem and now they are the victim.

They hold zero accountability.

They see no wrong in what they did only in how you reacted.

These will be the same people who say they love and care for you.

Feel free to correct me where I am wrong.

And good morning.

December 8th, 2021, just after midnight, Andrea was at work.

She was the overnight supervisor at a South Miami Dade group home, the same kind of facility she had dedicated her career to.

She was doing her job.

She showed up to every shift, caring for adults who depended on her.

A knock came at the door.

She opened it.

She knew the person on the other side.

It was Xavier.

The surveillance camera at the facility captured what happened next.

Xavier did not come to talk.

He attacked Andrea at her workplace, forced her out of the building, pushed her into her own vehicle, a white Honda Civic, and drove away with her.

The camera caught all of it.

When Andrea did not come home and made no contact with her family, the alarm spread immediately.

For someone whose whole life revolved around her children and the people depending on her, silence was not something that happened without reason.

Now to a developing story out of Southwest Miami Dade, where police say a woman is still missing after being abducted from her job this morning.

27year-old Andrea Lloyd works as a caretaker at a home.

That’s where she was when we’re told she opened the door to a man who beat her and dragged her into his car against her will.

Here’s CBS4’s Joel Waldman with more details.

>> In news, unfortunately, we covered too many of these stories, but I can’t remember a time in recent memory when so many family members showed up in such a short amount of time, desperate for Andrea to come back home safely.

>> It’s hard.

It’s hard because, you know, I mean, she’s the type of person she she always she always calls her dad because she we got so much love in the family.

>> Comforted by all that love, Patriarch Arnold Lloyd, a modest family man, told us he only wants one thing this holiday season.

>> Everybody know me, I don’t beg for nothing, but I’m begging for my daughter to come home.

I don’t beg for nothing.

I don’t beg for nothing, but I’m begging for my daughter to come home.

The baby of his 12 children, Andrea Lloyd, never returned home from her job as a caretaker at this South Miami Dade group home where the 27year-old worked as a supervisor.

>> For her not to not to have contacted any of us, something is wrong.

>> Miami date police confirming something did in fact go drastically wrong overnight.

They say surveillance video revealed a disturbing scene after a man showed up at Andrea’s job just after midnight.

>> This male proceeded to batter her and eventually during the altercation pushed her inside of a vehicle and drove off in an unknown direction.

>> Police say she was dragged and forced into a white Honda Civic with Florida tag Y650DL.

Andrea’s family tells us they have a hunch who her attacker is, but were asked by police to keep it to themselves for now.

>> Andrea is not the type person that would leave with a stranger.

And the information and the evidence that the detectives shared with us indicates that she was very familiar with the person that abducted her.

>> The mother of two young boys herself, Andrea’s family says she would never leave them alone.

>> She works, she takes care of her kids.

She works, she takes care of her kids.

That’s her life.

>> She’s an angel.

She’s an angel.

I mean, she’s a real angel.

>> Anyone with any information is asked to call Miami Day Crimes Stoppers at 305471 TIPS.

There is a reward for anyone with information that leads to an arrest.

Reporting in Florida City, Joel Walman, CBS4 News.

>> Her father knew right away.

Her family had a strong feeling about who was responsible.

Police asked them to keep the name to themselves while the investigation moved forward, but they already knew.

And investigators later confirmed that the person who took Andrea was someone she knew very well.

Someone she had every reason to open the door for.

Miami Dade police launched a full search operation.

Aviation units, all-terrain vehicles, K-9 teams, everything they had was deployed.

The white Honda Civic and its Florida tag were named in public alerts.

The community was asked to come forward with information and a reward was put on the table.

Andrea’s family did not sit and wait.

They went looking for her themselves.

Family members, including Andrea’s uncle, were out covering ground when they spotted Xavier Johnson in a heavily wooded area near the Homestead Speedway.

So, they called the police immediately.

Officers responded and Xavier was detained on the spot.

The K-9 unit moved in.

The cadaavver dog worked through that wooded area and alerted Xavier’s black pickup truck.

Close to that truck was a large metal utility box, the kind typically used for storage in the bed of a pickup.

What investigators found inside confirmed everything Andrea’s family had feared from the moment she did not come home.

Andrea Lloyd was gone.

She was reportedly just weeks pregnant with her third child.

Her two boys, 1-year-old and 5 years old, were now without their mother.

She was 5 days away from her 28th birthday.

Her father had stood before cameras while she was still missing and said something that stayed with everyone who heard it.

>> It’s hard.

It’s hard because, you know, she’s the type of person she she always she always calls her dad because she we got so much love in the family.

Everybody know me.

I don’t beg for nothing, but I’m begging for my daughter to come home.

I don’t beg for nothing.

I don’t beg for nothing, but I’m begging for my daughter to come home.

I feel good, but you know that still won’t bring back my daughter.

You know, I still want to bring back my daughter cuz she was going to leave him.

She was tired of him messing around on her and she was like a, you know, a wife, not a girlfriend.

If I knew anything was wrong, she wouldn’t have been there cuz I could have put in the house myself.

>> Her uncle spoke about what it meant to lose someone this way.

He said, “It hurts knowing that you loved someone like family, treated them like your own, and that same person brought this kind of pain into your home.

It hurts me for the fact that sometime you have loved ones that’s so close to you [ __ ] to get you involved in certain things when it come to them.

>> Her godmother could not stop thinking about the children.

Those two little boys who were now going to grow up without the woman who was the center of their entire world.

Xavier Johnson was taken to Miami Dade Police Department headquarters for questioning and he confessed.

He admitted to holding Andrea Lloyd against her will and hurting her.

Miami Dade Police Director Alfredo Ramirez publicly confirmed the charges against Xavier Johnson and addressed the community directly.

Right now at noon, authorities arresting a man who they say confessed to kidnapping and killing his pregnant girlfriend.

We were there as 32-year-old Xavier Johnson was walked into jail shortly after midnight.

Police say Andrea Lloyd was abducted as she was working at a Southwest Miami Dade group home >> and human remains were found sadly on Wednesday, but they have yet to be identified.

Johnson now facing a judge and local 10’s Anelise Garcia is live in Derell with more on this one for us.

Anelise.

>> Yeah, Janice Christie.

Today Johnson did appear in front of a judge and that judge did find probable cause and now he’s being held no bond.

>> The medical examiner confirmed the identity of the remains found near Homestead.

It was Andrea.

Xavier Johnson was charged with first-degree homicide, kidnapping, and burglary with assault.

Xavier appeared before Circuit Judge Mindy Glazer.

The judge found probable cause on all three counts.

She noted that this was the kind of case that could potentially be pursued as a capital penalty case.

>> Mr.

Johnson, good morning.

>> 33-year-old Xavier Johnson stood before a judge Thursday morning.

The judge addressed the disturbing allegations against him.

>> Morning, sir.

You were arrested for one count of first-degree murder, one count of kidnapping, and one count of armed burglary with an assault or battery.

>> Johnson, arrested in connection to the disappearance of 27year-old Andrea Lloyd, spoke in court about possibly acquiring a private attorney.

>> Do you have an attorney? >> Yes.

>> Who’s your >> I don’t have one yet, but I’m I’m going to get one.

>> He asked that you own the property owner what jet skis and what else? >> Uh the value of my jet skis is um 16,000.

Family tells us Johnson was the boyfriend of Lloyd and father of her two children.

When the question of legal representation came up, Xavier brought up the value of his jet skis, reportedly around $16,000.

>> We asked that you own the property owner what jet skis and what else? >> Uh the val the value of my jet skis is um 16,000.

>> When discussing whether he could afford a private attorney, the judge assigned him a public defender.

Xavier was ordered held without bond and booked into Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Now, the question that everyone was asking is this.

Why? Police never officially released a motive, but Andrea’s father, Arnold Lloyd, shared what he believed drove Xavier to do what he did.

>> Cuz she was going to leave him.

She was tired of him messing around on her, and she was like a, you know, a wife, not a girlfriend.

If I knew anything wrong, she wouldn’t have been there cuz I could have put in the house myself.

Andrea had been planning to leave Xavier.

She was exhausted by his repeated unfaithfulness, had made her decision that the relationship was over and was moving on.

And there was one more piece to it.

The child Andrea was reportedly carrying, Arnold Lloyd believed that the baby was not Xavier’s.

That combined with her decision to walk away is what her father believed set off everything.

That is not a finding from investigators.

No official motive was ever confirmed, but it is the assessment of a man who knew his daughter, knew the relationship, and was left standing in the wreckage trying to understand the unimaginable.

The two boys were placed in the care of their grandfather, Arnold Lloyd.

He appeared before a judge to take custody, exhausted and griefstricken, but steady, doing what needed to be done for those children.

There is no way to fully describe what that requires of a person.

He had just lost his daughter and now had to hold himself together for her children.

One week after Andrea’s passing, her community gathered for a celebration of her life.

People who had known Drea, worked with her, grew up with her, loved her, came together to honor who she was beyond the headlines.

Whoever, how many ever did this to my daughter? Just suffer.

>> Just suffer >> and never see the light.

>> An emotional night for the loved ones of Andrea Lloyd.

The mother who police say was abducted and killed last week.

Today would have been Andrea’s 28th birthday.

And her family wanted to use this opportunity to celebrate her life and honor her memory.

Meanwhile, her boyfriend and the father of her children remains in jail tonight accused of a murder.

That’s where CBS4’s Joel Waldman joins us from with more details.

Joel.

Elliot and Carly.

That is correct.

The man accused of killing Andre Lloyd sits in a jail cell here at TGK.

He is being held on no bond.

Uh this is Andrea’s family celebrated her birthday today, one week after her murder.

God will allow his blessings to be over us.

>> Prayers instead of wishes for Andrea Lloyd and her family on her 28th birthday.

A sea of pink balloons released into the bright blue sky.

>> And all y’all know that we are a loving family.

>> And that was my baby.

>> Yes.

>> That was my heart.

>> Andrea’s father’s heart now forever broken.

and the youngest of his 12 children found in this swampy area of Homestead.

Now, less than one week after the gruesome discovery, a celebration of life.

>> Her first wish would have been bringing our family together like we always do.

>> Andrea wants us to smile right now.

>> Hard to do whenever a young person’s life is cut so short, but especially difficult knowing the way Andrea died.

Police say Xavier Johnson, her boyfriend of 11 years, beat her up and dragged her into his car at the group home where she worked.

ultimately murdering her.

Johnson is the father of Andrea’s two children as well as the one she was pregnant with, leaving family members asking why.

>> My my thing was, why do you have to do this? You could have just walked away.

>> That fatal decision leading to a barrage of other questions from Andrea’s 5-year-old son.

>> 5-year-old is asking, “Where’s mommy? Where’s mommy? Where’s mommy?” >> An answer they say they’ve shared too difficult for most adults to process, let alone young children.

her uncle just grateful they’re all part of such a big loving family.

>> We always get together for anything that the family needed.

We be there.

Brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, and all >> and they were in fact all there.

Now, the attorney for Xavier Johnson, he released a statement to us saying that Mr.

Johnson and his family have been recipients of numerous threats since he was identified as a suspect in Miss Lloyd’s case, and we ask that before the public makes a rush to judgment against Mr.

Johnson and presume him guilty, that it allow all the facts of the case to come to light.

Meanwhile, the funeral for Andrea Lloyd will be held this Saturday with details to come.

Reporting live from Northwest Miami Day, Joel Walman, CBS4 News.

Her funeral was held that Saturday.

On what would have been Andrea’s 28th birthday, her family and friends gathered near the area where she was found.

They released pink balloons, stood in that place, and chose to fill it with something that looked like her.

Bright, full of color going up.

Tonight, we’re learning more about tomorrow’s funeral service for Andrea Lloyd.

Her services begin tomorrow at 2:00 pm at the Covenant Baptist Church in Florida City.

Police say the 27-year-old, who was 6 weeks pregnant, was found dead on December 8th in Homestead after her boyfriend, 32-year-old Xavier Johnson, confessed to abducting and killing her.

He’s facing first-degree murder charges.

Years after that, December, Andrea’s mother, Alfreda, took to Facebook during DV awareness month and wrote that she had almost not survived her own first marriage and that surviving had become her badge of honor.

She then said that her daughter, Andrea Lloyd, was a victim of intimate partner violence.

She urged anyone in that situation to plan in secret, to tell their family, and to understand that love does not hurt, that love is patient and kind and does not envy or boast.

She wrote that her life would never be the same because of one selfish and evil act that took the life of her baby girl.

And she asked people to share the post with purple hearts in tribute to Andrea.

That was not just a grieving mother posting about her pain.

That was a woman trying to make sure her daughter’s story meant something going forward, that someone else somewhere would read those words and make a different decision.

On what would have been Andrea’s 31st birthday, her mother posted again.

She wrote, “Today, I’m supposed to wake up singing and screaming happy birthday to you, Andrea Lloyd.

Instead, my heart is broken because you are not here to celebrate year 31.

No matter what, December 13th will forever be Drea Day.

Happy birthday, baby girl.

I miss you.

Three years later, and that grief had not moved.

December 13th will be Drea Day every year.

The world keeps spinning and so does crime.

Stay observant, listen to your instincts, and don’t ignore the warning signs.

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Thanks for watching.