Missing mother of four, Bellamy Gamboa, and the father of her two youngest children, Lamont Johnson, apparently filed assault charges against each around a year prior to her disappearance.
WAVY reports that according to court documents, Gamboa, 40, filed assault charges against Johnson on March 26, 2017, stemming from two reported physical altercations on March 5 and March 7.
“The dad of my infant twins is continuously threatening me. We argued and he pushed me while I had our baby in my left arm and he twisted my arms,” Gamboa wrote concerning the alleged March 5 incident, according to court documents.
“He has bruised me and threatened to kill me. I am afraid he will show up with my key looking for me and harm our infant babies.”
Gamboa also wrote that on March 7, Johnson “grabbed me while I called 911 and threw me on the kitchen floor … He threw my phone in the wall causing a hole, a few minutes later the police arrived. I did not press charges as I fear it will make him even angrier.”
On April 10, 2017, Johnson also filed assault charges on Gamboa, claiming that she assaulted him as well on March 5 and March 7.
“Bellamy Gamboa assaulted me on two occasions when I attempted to help my 5- month-old infants. She slapped me in the face on one occasion and pushed me in my neck on 3/7.”
A judge dismissed their cases in July 2017.
Fast forward to July 29, 2018, Johnson was arrested for second-degree murder, a little over two weeks after Gamboa disappeared from her Virginia Beach apartment on July 2. Johnson was also charged with four counts of “contributing to the delinquency or abuse of a child.”
“The Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor charges are related to specific events involving the children held in common between Lamont Johnson and Bellamy M. Gamboa,” police stated, according to WTVR.
Virginia Beach police declined to say whether the murder charge is in connection with Bellamy, but according to the arrest record, the date of the offense coincides with the date she disappeared.
So far, there has been no indication that Bellamy has been found or what evidence led police to arrest Johnson, but authorities continue to search for her, concentrating on the Chesapeake Bay area.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, it’s been close to a month since Bellamy disappeared from her Virginia Beach apartment, but her sister vows to never to give up until she finds her.
“Lamont told me he saw Bellamy go upstairs at 10 p.m. after an argument. He fell asleep and woke up at around 1:15 a.m. to get gas and cigarettes, then came home. He [said] he didn’t notice if her car was gone or not. He woke up again around 6:30 to 7 a.m. and said the twins were awake in their playpen, and noticed Bellamy was not home.”
The same day, Bellamy, an import specialist at Livingston International, didn’t make it into work. The police stopped by her home in the afternoon after her employer requested a welfare check.
“She never not shows up,” Charisse explained. “Even if she’s running late, she’ll call in the elevator.”
That evening, the family reported Bellamy missing.
“She texts her two teens ever hour and is a team Mom for baseball. That day, Monday, July 2, her son, Daniel, didn’t receive the usual encouraging ‘team Mom’ group text for their scheduled game that evening,” Charisse said.
Charisse also said her sister “would never leave the twins alone with their father,” and was in the process of finding another place to live when she disappeared.
“It was not a healthy situation and she was trying to find another option. She was trying move out. The only reason she stayed under the same room was for the sake of the twins. She would never leave her children, period. She doesn’t go out.”
On July 3, a waste company spotted Bellamy’s 2015 Gold Ford Focus next to an apartment complex dumpster and contacted authorities, as it was in the way of the employees retrieving trash. According to the Virginia Beach Police Department, the car was four miles away from Bellamy’s last known whereabouts, with her keys and purse still inside.
On July 5, authorities issued a Critically Missing Adult alert for Bellamy. On July 25, they canceled the alert. Police continue to look for her, however, and Charisse said she would never give up searching for her sister.
Bellamy stands 5-feet-2-inches tall, weighs around 135 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. She has “Bellamy” tattooed on her right ankle and a of a band of roses tattoo on her right arm.
Anyone with any information is urged to contact the Virginia Beach Police at 757-385-8175 or Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
[Feature Photo: Bellamy Gamboa/Family Handout]
