{"id":413648,"date":"2026-09-29T10:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413648\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T10:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:58:11","slug":"orlando-trial-begins-in-2021-mother-killing-child-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413648\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando trial begins in 2021 mother killing, child death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man accused of killing young mother, leaving her child in hot car in 2021 goes on trial in Orlando<\/p>\n

Doujon Griffiths, 26, is on trial in Orlando for the 2021 deaths of Massania Malcom and her 1-year-old daughter, Jordania, as well as the attempted murder of Malcom’s boyfriend.<\/p>\n

\"WESH\"Olivia<\/a>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

A 26-year-old man accused of killing a mother, shooting her boyfriend, and leaving their 1-year-old daughter in a hot car to die is now on trial in Orlando for the 2021 incident. <\/p>\n

Doujon Griffiths is facing multiple charges, including premeditated first-degree murder, first-degree murder with a firearm, and attempted first-degree murder. <\/p>\n

The State Attorney\u2019s Office said Griffiths shot and killed 20-year-old Massania Malcom after shooting her boyfriend. <\/p>\n

Investigators said Malcom\u2019s 1-year-old daughter, Jordania, was left in a hot car and was found dead alongside her mother\u2019s body two days later in a parking lot on Lake Ellenor Drive. <\/p>\n

According to investigators, Griffiths had been staying at the couple’s apartment. They say the couple had taken him in after he became homeless. <\/p>\n

Investigators said tension may have grown between Malcom and Griffiths over his lack of contribution to the household. <\/p>\n

On the morning of Sept. 7, 2021, the couple reportedly told Griffiths he had to leave and were driving him to a bus stop when he allegedly shot them. Malcom\u2019s boyfriend survived and shared details of the incident with investigators. <\/p>\n

Prosecutors began jury selection Monday and plan to present those details to a 12-person jury. <\/p>\n

Before selection, Griffiths\u2019 defense team requested to sequester the jury, as the trial is expected to last all week, but the motion was denied. <\/p>\n

The defense and prosecution also discussed whether prosecutors could show a photo of Jordania during the trial. <\/p>\n

Judge Vincent Chiu allowed the use of a single identification photo of the child, which shows her face and shoulder area, but gave prosecutors specific instructions. <\/p>\n

\u201cI will caution the state to be mindful of how long that image is up,\u201d Chiu said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man accused of killing young mother, leaving her child in hot car in 2021 goes on trial in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[53401,43010,23829,17444,163885,34137,120516,658,7441,163889,163886,163887,139,141,140,163888,11878,1934],"class_list":["post-413648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-boyfriend","tag-child-death","tag-couple","tag-daughter","tag-doujon-griffiths","tag-first-degree-murder","tag-hot-car","tag-incident","tag-investigator","tag-jordania","tag-malcom","tag-mother-killing","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-trial","tag-prosecutor","tag-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}