According to police reports Christian Gasca Martinez had been stalking Osvaldo Casas sixteen year old stepdaughter who had rebuffed the seventeen year olds advances earlier
Christian Gasca Martinez would allegedly fatally shoot Osvaldo Casas after he confronted the teen killer on the street
Christian Gasca Martinez has been charged with murder
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A 17-year-old boy in Texas is being charged as an adult after he allegedly murdered the stepfather of the girl he started stalking because she rebuffed his advances.
The Houston Police Department on Friday announced detectives arrested Cristian Gasca Martinez for murder in the death of 37-year-old Osvaldo Casas. Gasca Martinez allegedly shot Casas shortly before 12:30 a.m. Aug. 10 in the 600 block of Loper Street in southeast Houston. Cops responded to the scene and found Casas suffering from several gunshot wounds. Paramedics pronounced him dead on scene.
Police said at the time that Casas confronted a “suspicious” person on his street before the shooting. Further investigation determined that Gasca Martinez had been pursuing a romantic relationship with Casas’ 16-year-old stepdaughter, but the girl told him she was not interested, a complaint says. Gasca Martinez allegedly began stalking the girl. He kept calling the girl despite her asking him to refrain from doing so and she had to block his number, according to a courtroom report from local CBS affiliate KHOU.
The Houston Police Department on Friday announced detectives arrested Cristian Gasca Martinez for murder in the death of 37-year-old Osvaldo Casas. Gasca Martinez allegedly shot Casas shortly before 12:30 a.m. Aug. 10 in the 600 block of Loper Street in southeast Houston. Cops responded to the scene and found Casas suffering from several gunshot wounds. Paramedics pronounced him dead on scene.
Police said at the time that Casas confronted a “suspicious” person on his street before the shooting. Further investigation determined that Christian Gasca Martinez had been pursuing a romantic relationship with Casas’ 16-year-old stepdaughter, but the girl told him she was not interested, a complaint says. Gasca Martinez allegedly began stalking the girl. He kept calling the girl despite her asking him to refrain from doing so and she had to block his number, according to a courtroom report from local CBS affiliate KHOU.
He also reportedly posted threats on social media that included posting photos of him holding a gun. Gasca Martinez then shot Casas “in retaliation for being rejected” by the girl, the complaint said.
In a GoFundMe page, the victim’s wife Judith Molina said her husband died “while bravely protecting our family.” Making matters even more tragic was the fact that Molina and Casas were expecting a baby boy. Casas’ family laid him to rest on Aug. 20. Three days later, Molina gave birth to a baby boy.
“Osvaldo was overjoyed at the thought of meeting his baby boy and becoming a father to a son,” she wrote
She described her husband as “a man of deep love and kindness.”
“He was loved by so many in our community and never hesitated to lend a helping hand,” Molina said, adding he was a huge Dallas Cowboys fan.
A judge set Gasca Martinez’s bond at $200,000. Cops arrested him Thursday and took him to the Harris County Jail where he remains.
Molina told KHOU she was pleased the suspect has been arrested.
“I know the arrest isn’t going to bring him back, but I’m happy he was arrested,” she said.
Sophia Koval is an alleged teen killer from Florida who has been charged with the murder of her Grandmother
According to police reports fourteen year old Sophia Koval would beat to death her eighty year old Grandmother Yevheniia Kova with the woman’s walker and a belt
Sophia Koval reportedly told her father that Yevheniia Kova had scratched her and she would attack the eighty year old woman in self defense
Sophia Koval would be arrested and has been charged with manslaughter. The fourteen year old will be tried as an adult meaning she could face life in prison
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A 14-year-old girl accused of killing her grandmother in Lauderdale Lakes after she allegedly said she struck the victim with a belt and helped her die will be charged as an adult, the Broward State Attorney’s Office said Wednesday.
Sofia Koval now faces a manslaughter charge in the May 23 killing of 79-year-old Yevheniia Koval, instead of the second-degree murder charge that she previously faced, prosecutors said in a statement.
The alleged beating happened at an apartment in the Pearl Condominiums on Northwest 41st Street. Authorities responded there after receiving a call about an unresponsive woman. They met Koval’s son, who said he’d gone to visit a friend from about 7 p.m. until 12:30 a.m. and left Koval with his 14-year-old daughter.
He said when he returned, he found Koval unresponsive on the floor with abrasions on her neck and bruising on her face, arms and legs, officials said.
According to an arrest report, the teen told her dad that her grandmother had scratched her, and she “struck the victim several times with a belt” to defend herself. She then started crying, saying “she was sorry for what she had done.”
Koval was rushed to Broward Health Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.
The Broward Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Koval’s death a homicide, and the teen was identified as a suspect and arrested.
In a redacted arrest report, the teenager allegedly told someone in Ukrainian that “the victim was already dying and that she had helped her die.” That person advised that the Ukrainian word the teen used did not have a good translation to English, but that was what she was saying.
According to the teen’s father, Sofia Koval had recently moved from Ukraine and was displaying “behavioral issues, which he believed are from the war she witnessed in Ukraine and her being separated from her mother,” an arrest report states. He had taken her phone on the day of the killing to discipline her.
The arrest report goes on to say that after the killing, the teen was “very agitated and appeared aggressive at times. She was also constantly moving around. At this time it appeared that Sofia Koval was suffering from a possible psychotic episode.” She was subsequently Baker Acted.
On her way to the Fort Lauderdale Behavioral Health Center, Sofia Koval allegedly “made spontaneous utterances that she had killed her grandmother while her father was not at the residence” and “struck the partilion in the vehicle with her hand and caused a laceration.”
A redacted source in the report said the teen had never been diagnosed with a mental illness, but had been showing signs of aggression and being agitated. She had also not been eating or sleeping.
The redacted source also believed that the teen may have used her grandmother’s walker to hit her, because he noticed that a piece of the walker was broken.
Prosecutors formally filed the manslaughter charge against the teen on Tuesday, and she was moved from juvenile detention to the Broward County Jail where she will be held in protective custody, the state attorney’s office said.
A judge found probable cause for manslaughter and ordered her held without bond on Wednesday morning.
Though the maximum sentence for manslaughter is 15 years in prison, if convicted, the teen could be sentenced to juvenile sanctions.
“In the juvenile system, anyone found guilty and sentenced would have to be released after a maximum of three years and could only be kept under supervision in the community until age 21,” the state attorney’s office said. “Because she is not a U.S. citizen, she could be subject to deportation.”
In May, the victim’s son described his mother off-camera as faithful, humble and protective of her family.
“Because of the heinous nature of the crime and after considering everything presented by the defense so far, I believe it is appropriate that this case should be handled in adult court. We are considering all options and working closely with her attorneys at the Broward Public Defender’s Office to come up with an appropriate resolution that holds her accountable but also factors in her age and the circumstances of this offense,” State Attorney Harold F. Pryor said in a news release.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office has been in contact with the Ukranian consulate on this case.
A 14-year-old girl accused of killing her 79-year-old grandmother in Lauderdale Lakes back in May was sentenced to a juvenile program after pleading no contest in the death, prosecutors said.
Sofia Koval entered the plea to a manslaughter charge in adult court Wednesday and was immediately sentenced to up to three years in the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice maximum risk commitment program, the Broward State Attorney’s Office said.
After serving the maximum penalty in the program, she’ll be under community supervision until age 21, though it’s expected she’ll be transferred to federal custody for deportation to her native Ukraine because she is not a U.S. citizen, prosecutors said.
Koval was charged in the May 23 killing of 79-year-old Yevheniia Koval, who’d been found beaten to death.
The alleged beating happened at an apartment in the Pearl Condominiums on Northwest 41st Street. Authorities responded there after receiving a call about an unresponsive woman. They met Koval’s son, who said he’d gone to visit a friend from about 7 p.m. until 12:30 a.m. and left Koval with his 14-year-old daughter.
He said when he returned, he found Koval unresponsive on the floor with abrasions on her neck and bruising on her face, arms and legs, officials said.
According to an arrest report, the teen told her dad that her grandmother had scratched her, and she “struck the victim several times with a belt” to defend herself. She then started crying, saying “she was sorry for what she had done.”
Yevheniia Koval was rushed to Broward Health Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.
In a redacted arrest report, the teenager allegedly told someone in Ukrainian that “the victim was already dying and that she had helped her die.” That person advised that the Ukrainian word the teen used did not have a good translation to English, but that was what she was saying.
According to the teen’s father, Sofia Koval had recently moved from Ukraine and was displaying “behavioral issues, which he believed are from the war she witnessed in Ukraine and her being separated from her mother,” an arrest report states. He had taken her phone on the day of the killing to discipline her.
The state attorney’s office said prosecutors met extensively with the victim’s family before agreeing to the teen’s change of plea, and said the victim’s son, who is also the teen’s father “fully supported the outcome and thanked the prosecution, defense and judge for how they had handled the case.”
The maximum penalty the teen had been facing was up to 15 years in adult prison.
The judge overseeing the case told Koval that if she violates any of the terms of her sentence in the future she will be sent back to him and could face that maximum 15-year sentence.
“Because of the heinous nature of the crime and after considering everything presented by the defense, I believe it is appropriate that this case was transferred to adult court and that juvenile sanctions were imposed,” Broward State Attorney Harold Pryor said in a statement Wednesday. “We considered all options and worked closely with the victim’s family and with the defense attorneys at the Broward Public Defender’s Office to come up with an appropriate resolution that holds her accountable but also factors in her age and the circumstances of this offense.”
Carly Gregg is an accused killer from Mississippi whose trial began this week in the murder of her mother Ashley Smylie and the attempted murder of her stepfather Heath Smylie
According to police reports Carly Gregg, who was fourteen at the time of the murder, would fatally shoot her mother Ashley Smylie
After she shot and killed her mother Carly Gregg allegedly invited a friend over and asked the friend if she wanted to see a dead body. Gregg then led the other teen to view the body
The friend would tell police shortly after she heard several gunshots and this is when police allege that Carly Gregg had shot her stepfather Heath Smylie
Heath Smylie would phone police who would arrest Carly Gregg a short distance away from the home
Carly Gregg would be charged with murder and attempted murder as well as other charges
Prosecutors would offer Carly a forty year sentence if she would plead guilty to the charges she was facing. However the now fifteen year old girl would turn it down and elect to go to trial where if she is convicted could face life in prison
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Day 1 of the Carly Madison Gregg murder trial began with a somber atmosphere in the Rankin County Courthouse as the prosecution presented evidence to the jury, including a 911 call recording and body cam footage after the March shootings.
Gregg, 15, is accused of murdering her 40-year-old mother, Ashley Smylie, and attempting to murder her stepfather, Heath Smylie, on March 19 at the family’s Brandon home in the 200 block of Ashton Way. Gregg was 14 at the time of the alleged offense.
Gregg, who was dressed in a white dress with gold buttons, appeared to become emotional frequently throughout her Monday court appearance.
Around 3:20 p.m., the state called its first witness, Rankin County Dispatcher Kevin Collins, to testify about a 911 call from Heath which lasted about six minutes.
On the call, played inside the courtroom, Heath can be heard sounding hysterical and frantic saying Gregg shot him and killed her mother.
As the recording played, Gregg held her head downward. Gregg often rubbed her nose, letting out light whimpers with her shoulders shaking.
Later on in the audio, Heath can be heard saying, “God, why?”
As the call continued to play, Heath can be heard on the recording letting out more cries as he said he found Ashley’s deceased body in Gregg’s room.
At the same time inside the courtroom, Gregg was handed a tissue box. Gregg used the tissues to wipe her face.
Gregg appeared to become more emotional when prosecutors played the bodycam footage of the first deputy who arrived at the scene on March 19. The deputy was identified as Rankin County Patrol Deputy Hunter Lewis.
Lewis said when he arrived at the Brandon home, the front door was locked. While outside the door, Lewis testified that he heard someone screaming “hysterically” inside of the house. Lewis said that person was soon identified as Heath, who the deputy deemed “upset.”
The bodycam footage playing inside the courtroom showed Heath falling to the ground while telling Lewis that his wife, Ashley, was deceased inside the house. Heath told the deputy that he sustained a gunshot wound. Heath also told the deputy that Gregg ran out the back of the house after the shootings.
Bodycam footage showed Lewis making his way through the house where he found Ashley, lying straight on her back in Gregg’s room with a bloody towel draped over her face.
Lewis said he lifted the towel discovering Ashley had “a bullet in her head.”
The jury members sat in their chairs watching as the bodycam footage played on a monitor for 30 to 40 minutes before being cut off by the prosecutors.
After the jury was selected Monday, opening statements were presented before the first witness was called.
Katheryn Newman, one of the state prosecutors, began painting a picture to the jury about Gregg’s “secret life,” including a boyfriend, a secret phone, social media accounts and self-harm.
On the morning of March 19, Newman said Gregg and her mother rode together to Northwest Rankin High School. Gregg was a student, and Ashley was a teacher at the school.
Newman said on school grounds, Gregg got into an altercation with one of her friends, “cursing him out.” Newman said the friend was “so worried” about Gregg’s “marijuana use” that he sent an email to Ashley describing what he knew. Newman said the friend felt the “need to intervene.”
At approximately 3:30 p.m., Newman said Gregg and Ashley arrive back at the house. Newman said moments after arriving at the home, Ashley “took some items” out of Gregg’s bedroom. Newman identified one of those items as “four boxes that contained vape pens.”
Sometime after, Gregg allegedly shot her mother with a .357 Magnum gun she was concealing behind her back. Newman said one projectile was removed from Ashley’s brain and another from Ashley’s neck which matched the ballistics from the weapon Gregg used in the shooting. Newman said Gregg’s hands also tested positive for gunshot residue.
Newman said Gregg also called a friend, who came over. Gregg allegedly asked the friend if they were “squeamish around dead bodies” before showing the friend Smylie’s deceased body.
“I put three in my mom, three more for my stepdad,” said Newman, referring to an alleged statement Gregg made to the friend.
Defense Attorney Bridget Todd disputed the claims made by the prosecutors in her opening statement, stating Gregg “loved her mother” and was “a good student.”
Todd said jurors will hear from Heath, who is expected to stand beside Gregg. According to Todd, Heath believes Gregg didn’t recognize him when he came home. Todd said Heath believes the teen was terrified.
Todd told the jury that evidence will show that Gregg and her mother were “worried” that the teenager had the same mental illness that her father had.
Todd said, “while the events on March 19 were tragic,” they were not “intentional.” The defense’s plea is insanity.
If convicted, Gregg faces a potential sentence of life in prison. She previously turned down a plea deal offered by prosecutors that would have sent her to prison for 40 years.
Trial is set to resume at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17.
Nicholas Prosper is a teen killer from the UK who has been charged with the murders of his mother and two siblings
According to police reports the bodies of Juliana Prosper, 48, Giselle Prosper, 13, and Kyle Prosper, 16 were found in an apartment in Luton UK with all three being shot to death
Police would soon locate Nicholas Prosper and bring him into custody. As well as the three murder charges eighteen year old Prosper is facing an assortment of other charges including firearm offenses
Officers are still trying to figure out the motive behind the triple murder
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An 18-year-old man has been charged with murder after three people were found dead in a tower block in Luton on Friday.
Nicholas Prosper, of Leabank, was arrested on Friday morning after the bodies of a woman and two teenagers were discovered at a flat.
Bedfordshire Police said the victims were believed to be Juliana Prosper, 48, Kyle Prosper, 16, and Giselle Prosper, 13 – all also of Leabank – but formal identification is yet to take place.
The suspect, who has also been charged with a number of firearm offences, is due to appear at Luton Magistrates’ Court on 16 September.
Officers were called to the Leabank block of flats, in the Marsh Farm area of Luton, at around 05:30 BST on Friday and found three people with fatal injuries.
Bedfordshire Police said the 18-year-old was arrested shortly after officers were called to the property.
A firearm was found during a search of the surrounding area, the force confirmed.
Det Supt Rob Hall, from the region’s major crime unit, said officers who arrived at the scene were “met with such awful circumstances”.
He continued: “First and foremost our thoughts are with the three people who sadly lost their lives yesterday and their loved ones.
“Although formal identification has yet to take place, next of kin of those who we believe to have died have been informed and are being supported by specialist officers.
“We would ask that their privacy is respected at this unimaginably difficult time.”
He added that officers would remain at the tower block while the investigation continues.
Collin Griffith is a teen killer from Florida who is charged with the murder of his mother who bailed him out of jail after he allegedly murdered his father
According to police reports Collin Griffith was arrested and charged with the murder of his father a year ago after his father was fatally shot. Collin mother would bail him out of jail and later the charges would be dropped as Collin claimed it was self defense
However on Sunday Collin Griffith would call police and tell them that his mother, Catherine, had fallen on a knife. When EMS arrived at the scene they would find the woman dead with two stab wounds including one to her neck. When police began investigating neighbors would tell them that two hours prior Collin had dragged his mother out of the house by her hair
Collin Griffith has now been charged with the murder of his mother and authorities are going to revisit the death of his father.
Update – Colin Griffith was found not guilty of the murder of his mother
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Polk County deputies in Florida arrested a 17-year-old Sunday for allegedly murdering his mother.
Police said the Collin Griffith killed 39-year-old Catherine Griffith, of Port Charlotte, on Sunday evening, at a home in Auburndale.
The teen called 911 and when investigators arrived, he said that during an argument with his mother, she lunged at him with a knife and fell on it, causing a deep stab wound to her neck.
The sheriff’s office stated that when deputies questioned Collin Griffith at the scene, he then became uncooperative and requested a lawyer. Police later noted inconsistencies between his 911 call and the evidence at the scene.
Witnesses said they saw him arguing with his mother outside the home and dragging her inside by her hair, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Witnesses also reported hearing Catherine Griffith repeatedly plead with her son to “let me go.”
The sheriff’s office stated that Collin Griffith’s grandmother was not present during the stabbing, but told police about previous instances where her grandson had been physically and verbally confrontational with his mother.
Sheriff Grady Judd with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office called the defendant a “psychopath” during a Wednesday afternoon press conference.
A 2023 affidavit from by Lincoln County News in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, indicated that Collin Griffin, 15 at the time, shot and killed his father, Charles Robert Griffith, during a Valentine’s Day altercation.
Collin reported that an argument occurred between him and Charles, during which Charles allegedly pulled a knife and chased him through the house. Collin claimed that Charles trapped him in the bedroom, leading him to grab a gun and shoot Charles twice—once in the head and once in the chest.
The affidavit highlighted discrepancies between the scene’s evidence and Collin’s initial statement to dispatch. Although he was initially charged with murder, the charges in the 2023 case were dropped less than a month later, according to Judd.
Following his father’s death, the defendant moved in with his mother in Florida.
Collin Griffith remains behind bars without bail on murder charges.
A Florida teenager accused of murdering his mother was found not guilty on all charges.
Collin Griffith previously killed his father in self-defense.
In September, Catherine Griffith died from a stab wound, and her son called 911 saying she had fell on a knife.
“He has painted a picture that his mom lunged at him with a knife, tripped, and somehow fell on the knife. That’s preposterous,” the state prosecutor said.
Prior to moving in with his mother, Griffith had also killed his father in Oklahoma, which was ruled as self-defense.
Collin’s grandfather also spoke about a concerning conversation he had with Collin just months before Catherine’s death.
“He said ‘my mom, I keep thinking over and over I want to slit her throat, I want her to bleed out, I want to smell the blood’,” Catherine’s father Robert Walantas testified.
The teen’s defense team told the jury he acted in self-defense the day his mother died, and told the jury that Catherine committed “suicide by son”.
The teen’s grandmother confirmed that Catherine had numerous suicidal attempts.
Ring camera video played during the court hearing revealed that Catherine drove from Port Charlotte to Auberndale to get her son the day she died, because she was afraid of him violating his ongoing court orders.
The defense argued that Collin made it known multiple times that he will defend himself if his mother attacks him.
“He’s telling people ‘I don’t feel safe, I don’t want to go back with my mom’ and they kept making him do that,” Defense Attorney Amy Porinchak Thornhill said.
After less than 12 hours of deliberation Collin Griffith was found not guilty by the jury, on both the murder and kidnapping charges.
Friends of the family said they are unsure of where he will live once he is released.
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