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   In hindsight, the red flags were everywhere.   
      
   But when Florida mom Megan Hiatt, 22, decided to end her abusive   
   relationship back on Nov. 13, 2015, she never imagined her ex, Gawain   
   Rushane Wilson, would grab his AR-15 and fire several shots as she cradled   
   their 5-month-old twin daughters, Hayden Rose and Kayden Reese, in her   
   arms.   
      
   By the time he was done, Wilson, 28, killed both girls, Hiatt’s father and   
   himself.   
      
   Hiatt was shot seven times. Bullets struck her chest and abdomen. Her   
   lungs and kidneys were the only organs not pierced. The gunfire hit her   
   left wrist and shattered her left leg and knee.   
      
   She lost her left eye and was unable to walk.   
      
   Now, nine years and 50 surgeries later, and long after the national   
   headlines, the 31-year-old Texan can get around without a walker or   
   wheelchair, and is ready to start her life again.   
      
   She’s even yearning for another chance at motherhood with her husband,   
   Joseph Johnson, who she married in 2021.   
      
   She’ll soon learn from doctors whether the couple may still be able to   
   conceive naturally, or need to turn to in vitro fertilization. She has   
   started a GoFundMe to help with related costs.   
      
   “I’m completely physically independent, and that has been such a complete   
   blessing. It took me nine years, but it was worth every second of it,” she   
   said.   
      
   Hiatt had packed her things ready to leave Wilson for good on that tragic   
   day. A close friend and her dad, Travis James Hiatt, 49, stood outside   
   Wilson’s Jacksonville home to provide support. She was discussing a co-   
   parenting plan with him when he “started shaking physically” and became   
   “visibly distraught.”   
      
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   “We were on the couch; he had Reese, I had Rose, and we were feeding them   
   bottles,” she said. “My things were packed into a truck outside, and he   
   flew into a rage.”   
      
   “He asked, ‘Are we over?’   
      
   “Yes,” she replied.   
      
   “Are you sure we’re over?”   
      
   ‘We’re not meant to be in a relationship together,'” she said.   
      
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   Wilson stood up, “threw Reese on the couch,” and went to the closet where   
   he kept his firearms.   
      
   “He told me, ‘I am going to murder your dad, and you’re going to watch.   
   I’ll show what’s over, bitch.'”   
      
   When he heard Hiatt scream, her father came barreling through the front   
   door. Wilson opened fire. Over and over, Hiatt’s fearless father was   
   downed by bullets, yet continued to push himself back up.   
      
   Wilson, who was an engine mechanic for the Navy, then turned the weapon   
   toward Hiatt and the girls.   
      
   “At this point, I know we’re going to die,” she said. “What am I going to   
   do battling an AR-15? I was hysterical, and I was ready to die with   
   daughters in my arms, protecting them the best way I could.”   
      
   After fatally shooting the “sweet and beautiful” babies and critically   
   wounding Hiatt, Wilson stood over the mother of his dead daughters and   
   shot himself in the head.   
      
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