One month before prosecutors say Rebecca King caused the "gruesome injuries" that killed her infant daughter, she was arrested for an apparently alcohol-fueled fight that led her teenage son to seek a protection order.
On Sept. 5, King, who is 37, had a fight with her boyfriend, Bradley Johnson, according to an affidavit he signed. Johnson said King was in a "hostile state" and drank "close to a 12-pack of beer." She threatened to take their infant daughter to a friend's house. Johnson said he told King she could go, but she had to leave their daughter with him.
"She started going nuts, screaming and saying whatever she could to get a reaction," Johnson said in the affidavit.
King's 18-year-old son said in an affidavit that he tried to calm her down, but she threatened to kick him out of their Norwood apartment. King's son said she then "bull-rushed me."
