Woman killed in Glover Park received threats from suspect, victim’s mother says

The accused killer of a woman shot in front of her children in Northwest D.C. apparently sent disturbing messages in the past, according to the victim’s mother, grandmother to her three kids.

Rayven Amuan Edwards was fatally shot Wednesday in Glover Park.

“It’s just so sad, because this was just, Rayven was my best friend,” said the victim’s mother, Lucy Edwards.

The suspect, father of one of Rayven’s children, allegedly fatally shot himself not long after.

“It actually still just seems unreal to me that I would be without my daughter,” her mother said.

D.C. police are investigating a domestic shooting in which the gunman killed a woman and injured her daughter before fleeing and fatally shooting himself. News4’s Mauricio Casillas reports.

Her daughter was a devoted mother, she said.

“My daughter was so loving and nurturing,” Edwards said. “I mean, if there was an angel on earth, it was her. And if it was a devil here, it was him.”

She doesn’t know what happened Wednesday, but she noted troubling behavior in the past.

“He was sending her text messages telling her he wished she’d die, he hoped she dies,” Edwards explained.

She said her message is to take such threats seriously.

“I understand life and death; I understand we’re not meant to be here forever. But my daughter was not meant to be shot to death in the street,” Edwards said. “She was not meant to be traumatized. I don’t know what my daughter’s thoughts were before she passed. I don’t know if she had thoughts. I don’t know if she suffered. I don’t know anything other than my daughter is gone and she’s not coming back.”

Rayven suffered from Lupus but would work any job she could, like DoorDash, to provide for her children.

Her 10-year-old daughter, who also was shot, is back with family.