Linda A. Moore Published 1:55 PM EDT Sep 24, 2018 Melissa Isaac remembers very well the last time she spoke to her daughter’s boyfriend of 10 years. Joshua Fisher pointed his finger in the universal sign of a gun and told her “Miss Lisa, I’ma kill your daughter,” Isaac testified in court last week. On Saturday, a Shelby County Criminal Court jury found Fisher guilty of first-degree murder in the Oct. 13, 2016 shooting death of 28-year-old Bria Isaac. Bria Isaac was found by her mother and aunt in her Monroe Avenue apartment, slumped over the bathtub with a gunshot wound to the head and to the chest. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Fisher was arrested two months later in Stanton, Tennessee. The mother testified that her daughter and Fisher dated for 10 years. The physical abuse began about a year into their relationship, she said. She told the jury about her daughter’s many injuries, the ongoing calls to police over the years, the fact that Fisher would not work and how he hounded her daughter for money. Bria worked at a Captain D’s restaurant and Roses Discount Store. Isaac also testified about one of the last conversations she had with daughter while driving her home from her second job. Prosecutor Marianne Bell asked Isaac what she told her daughter. “I told her she needs to get away from him,” Isaac said. “He’s abusive and he’s never going to change. She said she was going to leave. But I think she was… [Read full story]
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