At least four women have been killed in a spate of domestic violence that shook metro Detroit in recent weeks.

Advocates called for changes to how the justice system responds to domestic violence.

Jennifer Thomas said, as a domestic violence survivor, she thought she broke the cycle of abuse.

She raised her only daughter, Sarah Carroll, 20, to be independent, strong and open about her struggles. But that didn't stop Carroll's ex-boyfriend from shooting the young woman in her Westland apartment several times with a shotgun, killing her before he turned the gun around on himself, her mother said.

“I thought we broke the chain. But I guess we didn’t," said Thomas, 43, of Ecorse less than a week after her daughter's tragic death on Aug. 30. Carroll never told her mother she was being abuse

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