I was just like, “Ooh, I just felt her.” She small as hell. She sat in the interrogation room laughing as she callously recounted how she tortured a girl to death, but the moment detectives told her she wasn’t walking away from this, the laughter stopped instantly. Okay, yeah, that’s a robbery. Another charge is uh murder.
Murder? Yeah. You’ve been charged with murder. Me? Yeah. Who laid hands on her like it was pouring? 17-year-old Janine Gonzalez had brutally attacked and killed a woman, and now the reality she thought she could outrun was finally closing in. It all began with jealousy and betrayal. 27-year-old Antoninette Stevens was in a relationship with Daniel Gonzalez.
They lived together, had children together, and were planning a future. But Daniel had a secret. He was also romantically involved with his manager, 30-year-old Ashley Boca Negra, a single mother with a 7-year-old son. My brother, him being a man, cheats. So, he tells me who he’s cheating with and stuff.
She’s more of a sister to me than my brother’s a brother to me, you know? >> Okay. Yeah. So, like we’re very close. So, once he told me, I was just like, “Ooh, I just felt her.” Daniel confided in his 17-year-old sister Janine about the affair. And that’s where everything would catastrophically wrong. Instead of staying out of her brother’s messy love life, Janine became Antoninette’s accomplice in a plan fueled by rage and jealousy. She’s coming.
So, Antoninette and me, we go to we go and she comes to the house, you know, big fight. On October 11th, 2022, Antoninette Stevens and Janine Gonzalez set a trap. They used Daniel’s phone to text Ashley Boca Negra pretending to be him and asking her to come to their apartment complex [music] on Buford Drive in Georgia.
Ashley trusted the message because she believed it came from her partner. Around 1:00 p.m., she showed up unaware of what she was walking into, which was straight into danger. She’s over at my apartment. Hold the phone down. By the what? All right, bro, where are we going? Look at her. Right there. Right there. So, guess what? That was me.
You know who that is? The moment she arrived, they attacked her. There was no argument, no warning, no chance to escape. They punched and kicked her, dragged her by the hair, and beat her in the parking lot with shocking brutality. Witnesses heard the chaos and called for help. But the violence had already begun. Yeah. Yeah.
What makes this case even more disturbing is that they recorded it. They filmed themselves hurting her, [music] laughing and taunting her while she suffered. They threatened her life asking if she was ready to die. Janine repeatedly kicked Ashley in the chest and ribs while Antoninette continued the assault.
In the middle of it all, they even stole her phone. I will murder you. I will murder you. I will murder you. Somehow, Ashley managed to get away. She was rushed to the hospital with devastating [music] injuries. Her ribs were fractured, her liver was damaged, she could barely breathe. Doctors intubated her and prepared emergency surgery fighting to keep her alive.
But her body couldn’t hold on. Just hours later, Ashley Boca Negra died from internal bleeding and her wounds. I got a call from the hospital a little while ago and she actually passed away from Bro, stop playing with me, please. Please stop playing with me. Please stop playing with me. >> Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down.
Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Please stop playing with Breathe. Breathe. >> [music] >> Breathe. She made it to surgery. She never got to go home, and her 7-year-old son lost his mother forever. Police quickly identified Antoninette and Janine as the attackers, and they were brought in for questioning.
This girl, she came to my house. She was sleeping with my fiance. Mhm. She works over there. She’s his manager and she keeps on forcing him to have >> [music] >> with her after he’d been cut it off or she’s going to fire him. >> The girl went to the hospital Okay. and she died. She died? >> She’s dead. During the interrogation, Antoninette immediately asked for a lawyer.
She knew how serious the situation was. She knew she was in trouble. I don’t go out looking to harm anybody. Um that’s not my intention. I do so, you know, very remorseful about anything that has happened with that young lady. She came over to my place of residence looking for my fiance. We argued. I was hit. We fought. I have kids.
I I don’t I just I don’t know how to feel, man. Her best friend, Janine, however, didn’t stay quiet. She kept talking. And with every word, she only made things worse. But the worst of it all, she was too dense to understand the severity of her crime and was taking it all like a joke, like she had just gotten into a schoolyard scuffle rather than beating a woman to death.
Of course, I knew she was dead cuz she about to go fight him. I’m coming with her. No, she’s dead. I know this. Casey, do you know how she died? Like From fighting. >> They didn’t release it for death. As a result of her injuries she sustained during the fight. She minimized everything claiming she had barely done anything as if it were all insignificant and that it was all an accident.
However, the autopsy revealed the true extent of the violence. Ashley had suffered blunt force trauma to the head along with hemorrhaging in both her brain and back. The official cause of death was listed as generalized trauma. It’s crazy. How does it make you feel? This I could feel like I’m going to hell. Like I’m not going to lie. Yeah.
And she’s not >> a girl. No, she isn’t. That’s why That’s why I didn’t want to put She’s She’s [music] too small. I said I I looked at her and I’m just like, “How old are you?” She told [music] me she was 30. You’re very small for your age to be 30. The laugh on the 17-year-old’s face is haunting.
It feels detached from reality. She speaks to detectives the way she might gossip at a teenage sleepover. How does a teenager sound so disconnected from the weight of what she’s done? But as the officers began explaining the consequences of what she’d done, everything began to change. Robbery. What? Robbery? >> Yeah. We didn’t steal her phone.
Did she say it was okay for you to take it? No. >> Okay, yeah, that’s a robbery. Another charge is uh murder. Murder? Yeah. You’ve been charged with murder. Antoninette Stevens and Janine Gonzalez were both charged with aggravated battery, robbery, and felony murder. And for Ashley, justice would now have to speak where she no longer could.
That’s That’s too bad. That’s deep, right? >> Yeah, that’s that’s insane. >> Yeah. No. No. No. No. What? Murder? Who laid hands on her? In 2023, Janine Gonzalez and Antoninette Stevens took a plea deal. They pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and robbery by force. The murder charge was reduced, >> [music] >> but both were sentenced to 20 years in prison.
But the question remains, are 20 years enough for a life taken, especially for those who seem to feel little to no remorse? Both the criminals are now serving their sentences at Arrendale State Prison in Georgia with release not possible until 2042. By then, Janine and Antoninette will still have decades of life ahead of them.
They will walk free one day, but Ashley won’t. Is that justice? Look at me. Look at me. Always. Always. Ashley Boca Negra was a mother who never came home. Her son will grow up without her hugs, her voice, her presence. How do you measure justice against that kind of loss?
