Latoya Tilson planned to use a bogus bathroom break at the funeral home where her dead son lay to escape from custody, according to a Fulton County Sheriff’s Office incident report.
The College Park woman charged with fatally shooting her 15-year-old son, Pierre Tilson, while trying to break up a fight at a party on April 4 was working with an unidentified woman to escape during an anticipated compassion visit to Gregory B. Levett & Sons Funeral Home, the report states.
The plot was discovered, the report notes, as a senior assistant district attorney monitored live jail conversations.
The report says that according to the plan, Tilson would ask to go to the rest room, where she would be accompanied by only a single deputy. A vehicle brought by the unidentified woman to the funeral home would allow for the getaway. No other details of the plot were spelled out.
Tilson, 33, was charged with two counts of aggravated assault, reckless conduct, cruelty to children, use of a firearm during the commission of a felony, violation of the family violence act and carrying a concealed weapon, Fulton County jail records showed.
Police said that while trying to break the fight up, she was hit in the face, then pulled out a small-caliber handgun and fired several shots into the crowd.
She hit her son, who also was trying to break up the fight between adults and teenagers at a College Park apartment complex, police said.
He was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital and died April 6.
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