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In the early morning of April 15, 2016, 20-year-old Griffin, Georgia police officer Matthew Boynton dialed 9-1-1 to report that his wife, 19-year-old Jessica Boynton, allegedly sent him text messages expressing suicidal thoughts while at their residence with their two children. Matthew was at a Waffle House with a colleague and drove home to check on his wife after receiving her messages. Upon entering the premises, Matthew called out for Jessica but there was no response. He grabbed his police radio and walked outside to report that he heard two gunshots from inside the couple's apartment. Officers from the Griffin Police Department later arrive, enter the apartment and approach a locked closet. The officers break it down and find Jessica with still alive head trauma and a glock pistol under her body, believing the injury was from an allegedly self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Jessica is transported in critical condition to a fire station nearby and then is evecuated by air ambulance to Atlanta Medical Center in Atlanta. Dispatch then notifies the Spalding County Sheriff Wendell Beam, who is also the grandfather of Matthew Boynton. The Spalding County Sheriff's office notifies Jessica's family that she died despite her still being alive and request the assistance of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI). The GBI interviews Matthew multiple times and asked for consent for his DNA. Despite an initial report of a possible suicide by firearm, medical examiners at the hospital state that Jessica did not appear to have a gunshot wound to her head and instead suffered from possible blunt force trauma.

Despite an investigation by law enforcement officials, an explanation for difference in conclusions surrounding the case were never resolved and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation closed their investigation into the matter. Jessica later woke up from a coma on May 10 and denied wanting to harm herself but could not remember the events that took place that morning.

Background
Matthew Boynton and then Jessica Lester met in high school in 2012 and married on October 24, 2015.