On August 8, 2015, 6-year-old Jonah Curtis Jackson of Houston was one of eight family members killed in a northern Harris County home invasion. The attacker, identified as David Ray Conley III, broke into the house of his former girlfriend, Valerie Jackson, where he had once lived. Conley entered through an unlocked window, held Valerie, her husband Dwayne Jackson Sr., and their six children hostage for several hours, then fatally shot each victim in the back of the head; Valerie Jackson was reportedly the last to be killed.

Jonah was one of six children murdered that day; the other child victims named are Nathaniel Conley, Honesty Jackson, Dwayne Jackson Jr., Caleb Jackson, and Trinity Jackson. The crime followed a history of domestic violence and prior threats by Conley toward Valerie Jackson and her children. Child Protective Services had investigated complaints about the children’s care in previous years and had at one point placed them in foster care before they were returned to their mother.

Conley was charged with multiple counts of capital murder and was arrested after police forced entry and engaged in a brief shootout. What details about contacts with authorities or interventions before August 8 might help explain how the family remained together despite earlier CPS involvement?