Mom, 3 Kids Shot Dead in Their Home After Judge Denies Protective Order
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JoAnna Cottle called 911 at about 4 a.m. Friday morning to report a “possible intruder” at her Virginia home, but by the time police arrived — a dispatcher heard the gunshots — she and her three children were dead. Police later tracked down her former boyfriend, Jonah Adams, near his home in Waldorf, Maryland, and …