Monica Figueroa is a woman from Texas who has admitted to killing her four year old son as her mother watched. According to police reports Monica Figueroa would roll up her four year old son Greyson Hurt in a blanket and proceeded to stab it multiple times with a knife. The child’s grandmother Mary Johnson would phone 911 and tell police she was worried about her daughter hurting her grandson but did not attempt to stop her. When police showed up at the Texas residence they would find Greyson Hurt deceased.
Police in Henderson County would report that Monica Figueroa told her mother to leave the residence and when Mary Johnson returned she would find her Grandson deceased and called police. When confronted by police Monica Figueroa would make a full confession and would be arrested and charged with capital murder. Mary Johnson would be arrested and charged with endangering a child
According to the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office, on Monday, officials arrested Monica Figueroa, of Athens, in connection with the death of her 4-year-old son, Grayson Hurt.
Henderson County Sheriff Botie Hillhouse says Figueroa confessed to killing her son when she was being questioned and is currently awaiting arraignment at the Henderson County Jail
Sheriff Hillhouse also says Figueroa only had one child in her home as she doesn’t have custody of her other children.
Around 6:40 a.m., Athens police were called to the 300 block of Mitchell Street in Athens by from Mary Johnson, Figueroa’s mother.
The HCSO says Johnson told police she was afraid Figueroa had hurt her son. When officers arrived on scene, they located Figueroa then found Hurt dead inside the home, partially covered with a blanket.
“Athens police officers then obtained a search warrant signed by 392nd District Judge Scott McKee to search the residence,” the HCSO said. “The Athens Police Department also contacted the Henderson County Crimes Against Children Task Force to assist in the investigation.”
The HCSO says the initial investigation indicates the child was killed with an “edged weapon.”
The child’s body was sent to Dallas for autopsy.
The HCSO reports, on Monday while investigating the crime scene at a home, authorities learned the child was killed on Sunday afternoon.
Sheriff Hillhouse says Johnson saw Figueroa on top of a rolled up blanket cutting it with a wooden handled knife.
“Johnson heard the child screaming before she observed Figueroa cutting at the blanket and then the screaming stopped,” Sheriff Hillhouse said. “Figueroa threatened Johnson and instructed her to leave which she did.”
According to Sheriff Hillhouse, Johnson returned to the home the next morning and found the child dead. Johnson then called law enforcement.
Judge Scott McKee issued an arrest warrant Johnson who was arrested and booked into the Henderson County Hail on $250,000 bond. She was charged with endangering a child.
Jorge Ivan Santos Camacho is a man from Lexington North Carolina who is facing a host of charges after a missing thirteen year old girl from Texas was found locked in a storage shed. According to police reports Jorge Ivan Santos Camacho allegedly kidnapped the thirteen year old girl from Dallas Texas and brought her back to Lexington North Carolina where she would be sexually assaulted and locked in a storage shed.
Police in Dallas Texas would see Jorge Ivan Santos Camacho vehicle on video driving in the area where the thirteen year old girl was kidnapped. The Dallas police would contact their counterparts in Lexington North Carolina and would watch the home. Soon Jorge Ivan Santos Camacho would be pulled over by officers and soon after they would realize the 13 year old girl was being kept in a storage shed on his property.
Jorge Ivan Santos Camacho has been charged with abduction, felonious restraint, human trafficking, statutory rape, statutory sex offense and indecent liberties
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A missing 13-year-old Texas girl was found locked in an outbuilding near a North Carolina home, authorities said Monday.
Investigators with the Dallas police and the FBI say a 34-year-old man enticed the girl to leave her home while communicating with her on social media, then picked her up in his vehicle, Sheriff Richie Simmons said at a news conference in Davidson County, North Carolina.
Video cameras near the girl’s house filmed a vehicle registered to an address in Davidson County, and a special agent with the Texas FBI Violent Crimes Task Force contacted the sheriff’s office there on Friday, officials said in a news release.
“Within 10 minutes our guys had eyes on that residence,” Capt. Stephanie Murphy said. “Everything moved fairly quickly after that.”
Investigators found the vehicle and conducted a traffic stop on the owner as he left the home, officials said. During the stop, they figured out that the girl was locked in an outbuilding on the property in Lexington, where she was found. She was taken for medical evaluation and eventually returned to Texas, officials said.
The man, identified as Jorge Ivan Santos Camacho, was taken into custody and charged with abduction, felonious restraint, human trafficking, statutory rape, statutory sex offense and indecent liberties. He was being held on $1.25 million secure bond. Attorney Corey Buggs was appointed to represent Camacho at a hearing Monday, according to court records. Buggs did not immediately respond to a phone message seeking comment.
Jessica Sanchez was the Principal at Travis Elementary in Baytown Texas until she was busted for having cocaine inside of the school. According to police reports Jessica Sanchez allegedly brought cocaine into Travis Elementary and the drugs were found in a school bathroom. Needless to say Elementary Schools are suppose to be a drug free zone so she was charged with possession of a control substance in a drug free zone. Not sure if Jessica Sanchez has been fired or suspended until her case works its way through the courts.
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A Texas elementary school principal has been arrested for allegedly bringing cocaine to campus, according to reports Wednesday.
Jessica Sanchez is charged with possession of a controlled substance in a drug-free zone, KTRK-TV first reported. She was arrested after an employee found the drugs in a restroom at Travis Elementary in Baytown, Texas.
“We will not, under any circumstances, tolerate this type of behavior in our schools. Our campuses are a safe haven for students, and we will not have students in unsafe environments,” the Goose Creek Consolidated ISD said in a statement.
Court records cited by the outlet say Sanchez has posted a $5,000 and was expected to be released.
Sanchez’s page on Travis Elementary’s official website has been removed.
GCCISD referred Fox News Digital to the district’s police department, which did not respond to a request for comment.
Officials told KXXV the incident is being reported to the Texas Education Agency’s Division of Investigation. Fox News Digital has reached out to the agency for comment.
Baytown is approximately 30 miles east of Houston.
Gary Green was sentenced to death by the State of Texas for the murders of his wife and her daughter. According to court documents Gary Green would fatally stab Lovetta Armstead before drowning her six year old daughter Jazzmen Montgomery. Gary Green would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. Gary Green is scheduled to be executed on March 7 2023
Gary Green 2023 Information
Name
Green, Gary
TDCJ Number
999561
Date of Birth
03/14/1971
Date Received
11/22/2010
Age (when Received)
39
Education Level (Highest Grade Completed)
Date of Offense
09/22/2009
Age (at the time of Offense)
37
County
Dallas
Race
Black
Gender
Male
Hair Color
Black
Height (in Feet and Inches)
6′ 3″
Weight (in Pounds)
365
Eye Color
Brown
Native County
Native State
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Two brothers tearfully recounted for a Dallas County jury Tuesday how their stepfather forced them to look at the dead bodies of their slain mother and little sister.
The boys’ emotional testimony came in the capital murder trial of Gary Green, 39, where they also told jurors that they persuaded their mother’s husband not to kill them, too. Green is accused of killing Lovetta Armstead and her 6-year-old daughter, Jazzmen Montgomery, at their south Oak Cliff home in September 2009.
As they see their mother lying on the floor, “we just fall on our knees and start crying,” the older boy, now 13, told jurors.
Armstead was killed shortly after informing Green that she wanted to annul their marriage just months after the wedding, according to police. Green had moved out, but he persuaded Armstead to let him spend the day at the house.
If convicted, Gary Green would face the death penalty or life in prison without parole.
The attack on Armstead was so violent, said prosecutors Andy Beach, Heath Harris, Josh Healy and Jennifer Bennett, that one knife broke and Green grabbed another.
Armstead also grabbed a knife and stabbed Green twice behind his shoulder.
But her stab wounds were too much and she died “a slow, painful, agonizing death,” Beach said.
Gary Green then grabbed the girl and drowned her in the bathtub, prosecutors said. He would later tell police that “it was so bad, I had to turn away.”
He showered in the same tub and went to pick his stepsons up from church. When they got home, he held the brothers at knifepoint and stabbed the youngest one in the abdomen.
Somehow, Beach said, the boys did what their mother could not and persuaded Green not to kill them. The youngest brother did all the talking. His older brother testified that he was too scared.
“We’re too little to die,” the younger brother, now 10, testified he told Green. “We won’t tell anybody about it.”
They also told Gary Green that they loved him.
After Green told the boys he would spare their lives, he told them he had something to show them. He took them into the bedroom and showed them their dead mother.
“I killed your mom because I loved her to death,” Beach said Green told the boys.
They then saw the body of their sister face down on the bloody floor of the bathroom. Her hands were bound behind her back with duct tape.
The older boy said Green ordered him to retrieve his pills, forcing him to walk through the blood that covered the bathroom floor.
Green then left, he said, after making the boys hug him and promise not to call the police until he was gone.
The boys testified Green told them he was going to kill himself.
“You know how I told you to say, ‘See you later’ and never ‘Bye?’ ” the older quoted Green as saying.
“Well, this is goodbye.”
Bursting into tears
The younger brother was seated at the witness stand during a break and smiled while talking to attorneys. But he burst into tears when Green entered the courtroom from a jail cell.
When prosecutors couldn’t calm him, he was ushered from the courtroom. The boy returned minutes later, armed with pockets full of candy.
As the younger boy testified, he glanced constantly at Green, who sat quietly and stared ahead throughout the day’s testimony. The boy said he once cared for Green, telling jurors, “I loved him to death.”
‘5 lives taken today’
Earlier Tuesday, prosecutors introduced three letters that the couple exchanged on the day of the murders.
In the first message, written on notebook paper, Armstead asked Green to move out of their home: “I know you love me and I love you but it’s time we part.”
In the second, she voiced regrets at allowing Green back into her life.
In the final letter, Green said he planned to kill Armstead, her three children and himself. The letter showed to jurors was typed. The original was covered in blood and found on Armstead’s bed.
“You asked to see the monster so here is the monster you made me!” he wrote. There “will be 5 lives taken today me being the 5th!”
At one point in his final letter to Armstead, Green reflected on his fate.
“I pray that the Lord allows my soul to enter Heaven,” he wrote. “If not I will burn in Hell forever.”
In brief opening remarks, Green’s defense attorneys, Paul Johnson, Kobby Warren and Brady Wyatt asked jurors not to make up their minds until they hear all the evidence.
A Texas inmate convicted of fatally stabbing his estranged wife and drowning her 6-year-old daughter in a bathtub nearly 14 years ago was executed on Tuesday.
Gary Green, 51, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was condemned for the September 2009 deaths of Lovetta Armstead, 32, and her daughter, Jazzmen Montgomery, at their Dallas home. Green’s attorneys did not file any appeals seeking to stop the execution.
A Buddhist spiritual adviser chosen by Green stood beside the death chamber gurney at the inmate’s feet and said a brief prayer. Green then apologized profusely when asked by the warden if he had a final statement.
“I apologize for all the harm I have caused you and your family,” Green said, looking at relatives of his victims who watched through a window. “We ate together, we laughed and cried together as a family. I’m sorry I failed you.”
He said he took “two people that we all loved, and I had to live with that while I was here
Texas executes man convicted of killing his estranged wife and her daughter
March 7, 2023 / 10:03 PM / AP
A Texas inmate convicted of fatally stabbing his estranged wife and drowning her 6-year-old daughter in a bathtub nearly 14 years ago was executed on Tuesday.
Gary Green, 51, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was condemned for the September 2009 deaths of Lovetta Armstead, 32, and her daughter, Jazzmen Montgomery, at their Dallas home. Green’s attorneys did not file any appeals seeking to stop the execution.
A Buddhist spiritual adviser chosen by Green stood beside the death chamber gurney at the inmate’s feet and said a brief prayer. Green then apologized profusely when asked by the warden if he had a final statement.
“I apologize for all the harm I have caused you and your family,” Green said, looking at relatives of his victims who watched through a window. “We ate together, we laughed and cried together as a family. I’m sorry I failed you.”
He said he took “two people that we all loved, and I had to live with that while I was here.”
“We were all one and I broke that bond,” he continued. “I ask that you forgive me, not for me but for y’all. I’m fixing to go home and y’all are going to be here. I want to make sure you don’t suffer. You have to forgive me and heal and move on. … I’m not the man I used to be.”
Instead of inserting the IV needles in each arm, prison technicians had to use a vein in Green’s right arm and a vein on the top of his left hand, delaying the injection briefly.
As the lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital began, Green was thanking prison administrators, chaplains and “all the beautiful human beings at the Polunsky Unit,” the prison that houses Texas’ condemned men. Then he took several quick breaths, which evolved into snores. After nine snores, all movement ceased. Several of the victims’ relatives hugged and cried.
He was pronounced dead 33 minutes later, at 7:07 p.m.
Ray Montgomery, Jazzmen’s father and one of the witnesses, said recently that he wasn’t cheering for Green’s execution but saw it as the justice system at work.
“It’s justice for the way my daughter was tortured. It’s justice for the way that Lovetta was murdered,” said Montgomery, 43. He and other witnesses did not speak with reporters afterward.
In prior appeals, Green’s attorneys had claimed he was intellectually disabled and had a lifelong history of psychiatric disorders. Those appeals were rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court and lower appeals courts.
The high court has prohibited the death penalty for the intellectually disabled, but not for people with serious mental illness.
Authorities said Green committed the killings after Armstead sought to annul their marriage. On the day of the killings, Armstead had written two letters to Green, telling him that although she loved him, she had “to do what’s best for me.” In his own letter, which was angry and rambling, Green expressed the belief Armstead and her children were involved in a plot against him.
“You asked to see the monster so here he is the monster you made me. … They will be 5 lives taken today me being the 5th,” Green wrote.
Armstead was stabbed more than two dozen times, and Green drowned Jazzmen in the home’s bathtub.
Authorities said Green also intended to kill Armstead’s two other children, then 9-year-old Jerrett and 12-year-old Jerome. Green stabbed Jerrett but both boys survived.
“We won’t tell anybody about it,” Jerrett told jurors in testimony about how he convinced Green to spare their lives.
Josh Healy, one of the prosecutors with the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office that convicted Green, said the boys were incredibly brave.
Green “was an evil guy. It was one of the worst cases I’ve ever been a part of,” said Healy, now a defense attorney in Dallas.
Montgomery said he still has a close relationship with Armstead’s two sons. He said both lead productive lives and Jerome Armstead has a daughter who looks like Jazzmen.
“They still suffer a lot, I think,” said Montgomery, who is a special education English teacher.
Green’s execution was the first of two scheduled in Texas this week. Inmate Arthur Brown Jr. is set to be executed Thursday.
Shamaiya Hall is a woman from Italy Texas who would stab five children murdering three of them . According to police reports Shamaiya Hall would stab five of her children killing three of them. The three children who past away are all elementary school age. Turns out back in 2017 Shamaiya Hall would stab her sister’s boyfriend.
According to reports the five children were under care of the Child Protective Services and Shamaiya Hall was to have no contact with the children. However when Child Protective Services learned that Shamaiya Hall was having unsupervised visits with her five children she would react by stabbing the young children killing three of them
Turns out that back in 2021 Shamaiya Hall twin sister Troyshaye Mone Hall would fatally stab her own daughter who was seven years of age. Troyshaye Mone Hall would be placed at a Texas State Hospital.
Shamaiya Hall has been charged with three counts of murder
Sources said three elementary school-aged kids were found dead inside a home near Stafford Elementary School in the small Ellis County town on Friday afternoon.
Child Protective Services confirmed to WFAA that all five children were siblings.
Now, we’re learning more about who the mother – identified as Shamaiya Hall – is and her criminal history. This is not the first time she’s been arrested for allegedly stabbing someone, and it’s not the first alleged fatal stabbing tied to her family, either.
Hall, according to arrest records obtained by WFAA, is a 25-year-old resident of Forney, Texas. She had been previously arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly stabbing her sister’s boyfriend in 2017.
The children had been previously placed by CPS under the guardianship of another relative.
Sources with CPS told WFAA that Hall allegedly stabbed her children when a CPS worker, who suspected the mother was having unsupervised visitations with her children, arrived at the scene to check on her unannounced.
Hall’s twin sister, Troyshaye Mone Hall, was arrested for allegedly stabbing and killing her 7-year-old daughter in June of 2021, according to an arrest affidavit. In October of 2021, Troyshaye Mone Hall was ordered to go to North Texas State Hospital in Vernon.
Shamaiya Hall has been charged with three counts of capital murder.
A mother is in custody in Italy, Texas, after she allegedly stabbed three of her children to death and and injured two more of her children Friday, sources told WFAA.
Sources said three elementary school-aged kids were found dead inside a home near Stafford Elementary School in the small Ellis County town on Friday afternoon
Two other children were injured and were transported by helicopter to a local hospital with stab wounds. Their conditions are unknown.
Child Protective Services confirmed to WFAA that all five children were siblings.
Sources with CPS told WFAA that Hall allegedly stabbed her children when a CPS worker, who suspected Hall was having unsupervised visitations with her children, arrived at the scene to check on her unannounced.
The children had been previously placed by CPS under the guardianship of another relative.
The Ellis County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that CPS had been at a home on the street where the crime took place, and then quickly called 911 for help.
There is no current additional threat to the greater community, officials said.
CPS provided WFAA the following statement: “We are shocked by this incomprehensible tragedy, and already working with law enforcement to investigate how this happened, and why,”
Added Ellis County Judge Todd Little in a statement of his own: “Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and citizens of Italy.”
Italy ISD said in a statement that counselors will be available at the school on Monday morning. Any family or community members can also seek counseling on Monday morning at Central Baptist Church main campus, the district said.
An active investigation remains ongoing at the scene.
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