Filed under: News, Race and Civil Rights
Police investigators have discovered that the Tallahassee, Fla., mom, who was brutally murdered along with her three children, was in a courtroom only four days earlier seeking child support for her set of 6-year-old twins.
The 27-year-old slain Brandi Peters and her children, twins Tamiyah and Taniyah Peters (pictured above) and 3-year-old son Jovante Segura, were found dead in their home Saturday morning.
Tallahassee police are working overtime to piece together the crime, which has left an entire community baffled.
Reportedly, investigators stumbled upon some information regarding Peters' whereabouts last Tuesday: The single mom was in family court signing a child-support order. The father of her twins, Antonio L. Anthony, 44, was obligated by the courts to pay Peters $307 per month, plus a retroactive support payment of $22,925. Peters also took Henry Segura Jr., the dad of the youngest boy, to court last summer and was granted $744.47 per month for her son and $20,100 in retroactive child support monies.
So far, there are no suspects in the homicide deaths. Police are questioning the fathers of the children -- Anthony, who has a long criminal rap sheet, and Segura. 
Anthony was released from prison last year in May, after serving four years on two counts of cocaine possession and grand theft of a motor vehicle. The handgun-tattooed dad, who has served three prison terms over the last 20 years, has also been charged in the past with aggravated assault with a weapon and armed burglary.
Ironically, Peters also had a criminal past. She was placed on probation for a year after pleading no contest to simple battery in exchange for a reduction from aggravated battery. Peters was also placed on community supervision for two years for aggravated assault with a weapon and grand theft.
In 2005, the Department of Children and Families received a call by someone who claimed that the Peters' home was "unsafe," but the case was closed soon after. Case investigators did not find evidence of any wrongdoing in the Peters household.
Segura, who does not have a criminal past but who did deny fathering Peter's son Jovante, requested a paternity test last July. Apparently, he petitioned the court for a test because of a dubious voice mail that was left for him by Peters:
"In the message she stated that I was stupid for signing a birth certificate for a child that was not even mine," Segura wrote. However, his petition was denied because the administrative order states the child's paternity was "legally established by affidavit or voluntary acknowledgment."
Meanwhile, the long arm of the law continues to investigate what has been categorized as "one of the most gruesome murder cases." Police are asking anyone with information about this crime to please contact the Tallahassee Police Department at 850-891-4200.
Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Genelle Frenoy Shania Twain Gwen Stefani Sunny Mabrey Karolína Kurková
No comments:
Post a Comment