ATHENS, TEXAS: A Texas mother has been arrested after she purportedly confessed to cutting her 4-year-old child to death before her own mom, Mary Johnson. Monica Nicole Figueroa was captured on Monday, Walk 13, and has been accused of one count of capital homicide of an individual younger than 10. Figueroa was captured for killing her child Grayson Hurt at their family home.
On Monday, officials of the Athens Police Division, Texas, answered a call at around 6.41 am from Johnson who mentioned a wellbeing check at Figueroa’s home arranged in the 300 block of Mitchell Road, as per a public statement. The crisis dispatcher was informed that Johnson was worried about the possibility that that Figueroa might have really hurt her grandson according to Regulation and Wrongdoing report.
How was Harmed killed? After specialists on call showed up at the scene alongside crisis clinical faculty, they found Figueroa before they entered the home. Hurt’s body was found “to some degree covered with a cover” and was set inside the entryway, as indicated by the public statement. Specialists promptly mentioned help from Henderson District Wrongdoings Against Kids Team for the examination and got a court order for the home situated on Mitchell Road.
Police led a primer examination and confirmed that Hurt was purportedly killed by his mom who utilized an “edged weapon” to cut him. As of now, a dissection has been planned to be finished in Dallas by the Southwestern Establishment of Legal Science. As indicated by police, Figueroa confessed to killing Hurt not long after she was captured.
What was Figueroa’s thought process behind murdering her child? Botie Hillhouse, the Henderson Province Sheriff said, “She truly gave no thought process or motivations behind why,” detailed CBS 19. He added that the supposed executioner’s mom clarified for the investigators that on Sunday, Walk 12, she saw Figueroa holding a blade and cutting a rolled-up cover. Sheriff Hillhouse said, “Johnson heard the youngster shouting before she noticed Figueroa cutting at the sweeping and afterward the shouting halted,” and added, “Figueroa undermined Johnson and trained her to leave which she did.”
Texas mom Monica Figueroa fatally stabbed screaming 4-year-old son as grandma looked on: cops
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Johnson allegedly reached the specialists the following morning and informed that she called 911 as she found her grandson dead. Youngster Defensive Administrations, the Texas Officers, and the Henderson Province Head prosecutor’s Office are the organizations helping the continuous examination concerning the 4-year-old kid’s homicide.
“It is as yet an extremely liquid examination, there’s still a ton of moving parts, [we’ve] still got a ton of bits of the riddle to assemble, however that is basically where we are at the present time,” expressed the sheriff.
Figueroa, who is looking for her arraignment, is presently being held without bond at the Henderson Region Prison alongside her mom Johnson who was likewise captured for kid danger and is held with a bail of $250,000 bond, as per CBS 19. Figueroa lost authority of her vague number of different youngsters and Hurt was her lone kid at her home.
