Texas woman kills boyfriend as he slept then cuts his body to pieces in front of her daughter
The Baytown Police Department in Texas has charged a woman with the murder of her boyfriend.
Police say 30-year-old Cierra Alexis Sutton fatally shot her
boyfriend, 32-year-old Steven Coleman as he slept and then dismembered
his body inside their home. The gruesome crime took place on Aug. 16 at
an apartment complex in the Houston suburb of Baytown. Friends
reportedly say Sutton confessed and told them her ten-year-old daughter
was in the living room at the time.
Detectives say Sutton and the victim had gotten into an argument the
evening of the killing. Later, while the victim was sleeping, Sutton
allegedly fatally shot him in the head. She then allegedly dismembered
the remains with a machete, wrapped them in sheets and duct tape, loaded
them into her Jeep and disposed of them at different dumpsters.
On August 18, Sutton herself then filed a missing person report. She
showed up at a police station and said she'd last seen Coleman two days
earlier, that is the day of the killing, and that he'd left home around
10:30 p.m. She pretended not to know anything and was even trying to
call him, a neighbor said.
Coleman's car was still parked at the complex, and family and friends
told police they hadn't heard from him. Witnesses said they had seen him
moving furniture out of the couple's apartment before his disappearance
and one friend told investigators Coleman had once said if he ever
disappeared, police should investigate his girlfriend. According to the
Chronicle, police searched the couple's apartment about a week after the
disappearance and found it "mostly vacant" with blood traces scattered
across the bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom.
Then on August 22, a male torso believed to be Coleman's was
discovered at a Baytown landfill. DNA has not positively identified the
remains, but police say it matches the description of Coleman. Sutton
reportedly said she would talk to Baytown police about the disappearance
before Hurricane Harvey struck the area, but she never showed up. With
the help of an anonymous tip, police tracked her to a New Orleans
suburb, where she had allegedly fled with her daughter.
She was arrested there Thursday and charged with murder.
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