“’Mama, he killed them,’”, twins

The 22-year-old Florida woman said she had the realization six days after her ex-boyfriend, Gawain Rushane “Rush” Wilson, entered Hiatt’s Jacksonville home on Nov. 20, gunned down her father, killed her twin 5-month-old daughters, shot her multiple times and then killed himself.
“She had to crawl through her babies’ blood, then through the shooter’s blood, and to her dad to hear his last words,” Hiatt’s mother, Melissa Bateh, told First Coast News. “He wanted her to tell her brother that he was the best son ever and he loved him. That was God’s hand.”


The hand that held the gun belonged to the 28-year-old Wilson, a Navy man and the biological father of the twin girls, Hayden and Kayden.
“’Mama, he killed them,’” Bateh said, recounting Hiatt’s words. “’He killed them in my arms. He made me hold them when he killed them. He made me watch.’”
In the days since the grisly crime, Wilson’s history as a serial domestic abuser has come to light. Danielle Johnson, who told First Coast News she dated Wilson about two years ago, was asked after the couple broke up whether she thought he was capable of killing someone. She said she replied, “Yes.”
“I felt guilty because I dropped the ball,” said Johnson, who recalled one occasion when Wilson threatened her with an AK-47. “I was supposed to go get a permanent injunction and meet with a lot of other people and I didn’t because I was scared. But I wish I had – especially now.”
Wilson was primarily a verbal abuser, and mostly in private. In public, Hiatt and Johnson spoke of a charming man who would buy flowers and dote on his dates. But at home, Wilson would change, taunting, demeaning and belittling his girlfriends.
“The babies were 3 days old and he would ask, ‘When are you going to start losing weight?’” Bateh said. “[Hiatt] hadn’t even left the NICU.”
Hiatt said Wilson called her a “whore” and “lazy” because she was a stay-at-home mom.