Another arrest has been made in connection with the death of a 4-year-old East Texas child.
On Monday, law enforcement said Monica Figueroa, of Athens, was arrested and is accused of killing her child, Grayson Hurt, 4. On Tuesday, law enforcement released more information and said the child’s grandmother, Mary Johnson, was also arrested in connection with the death.
Figueroa was charged with capital murder in connection the child’s death, according to a press release from Henderson County Sheriff Botie Hillhouse.
At 6:41 a.m. Monday, the Athens Police Office got a call from Johnson, who is Figueroa’s mom, for administration to Figueroa’s home on Mitchell Road.
“She told police she was worried about the possibility that that Figueroa had harmed her child,” Hillhouse said.
At the point when officials showed up at the home, they found Figueroa.
Officials entered the home with crisis clinical faculty and “tracked down the departed youngster inside the entryway, to some degree covered with a cover,” Hillhouse said.
Athens cops then, at that point, got a court order endorsed by 392nd Locale Judge Scott McKee to look through the home.
The Athens Police Office additionally reached the Henderson Province Violations Against Youngsters Team to aid the examination.
The underlying examination demonstrates the youngster was killed with an edged weapon.
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