GUILTY TX - Teketria Buggs, 12, Orchard, 2 December 2005

[birdie]

If poor Teeky was sexually active as the autopsy suggested, and the boyfriend/stepfather was a crack ser....where does that leave the mother?

I feel that it's the parent's responsibility to keep their children safe. Has anyone read anything about the mother's background? Was she a drug user also?

It just makes me sick when parents expose their kids to that element. Poor Teeky.

 

[mysteriew]

Carrington told investigators he acted alone in Buggs' slaying, Fort Bend County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Craig Brady said. As stated in Carrington's confession, the two began arguing in a Fort Bend County home when he struck Buggs with some kind of object and stabbed her multiple times.

Preliminary information from the medical examiner suggests Buggs may have been sexually assaulted. Carrington denies sexually abusing the girl, Brady said.

A first-degree murder charge is pending in Buggs' death, but that could be upgraded to capital murder if authorities find enough evidence of sexual assault, Brady said

Carrington told authorities he didn't realize who he was killing because he was high on crack.

Family members of Carrington were home at the time of the alleged murder, but they have not cooperated with investigators, Brady said.
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/13486235.htm

 

[Opie]

Dysfunctional is too mild a word to describe this family. That poor child!

 

[mysteriew]

Detectives recovered a knife and blood samples from the home of slain 12-year-old Teketria Buggs and also seized a car believed to have been used to take her body to a bridge where she was dropped in the Brazos River, according to a search warrant.

The warrant affidavit revealed more details on how the young girl was killed earlier this month and on an alleged attempt to destroy potential evidence such as bloody clothing.

Investigators seized a 4-inch folding-blade knife that had a bent tip. Six blood samples were found and police also recovered ashes from a burn pile, according to the affidavit filed Wednesday at the Fort Bend County courthouse.

Carrington told police he caused the death of the young girl by inflicting blunt trauma and stabbing her with a knife, the warrant said.

"He transported the body of Teketria Buggs to the Brazos River Bridge on farm market rd. 1489 in his mother's maroon 1993 Lincoln Town Car," the affidavit said.

The warrant says Carrington went back to the house where he put blood-stained clothing and a blunt instrument into a garbage bag. He put the bag on a trash pile near the house. Carrington said a family member burned the trash pile but the warrant did not identify the person.

Prosecutors plan to present evidence to a grand jury in the next few weeks.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3553358.html

 

[cathieq]

A very moving article about Teketria Buggs. In a way, I wish I hadn't read it.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3653253.html

 

[strach304]

Thanks for posting that Cathieq, I was curious to know which ones knew about Corey but her mother's sister? I assumed it would be Carrington's relatives but i'm with Mrs. Brooks they all belong in jail.

 

[OkieGranny]

From August 2013:

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...dearth-of-tragedy-on-Johnson-Road-4769689.php

There's nothing left of the Carrington family compound on Johnson Road except for a decrepit trailer home, a few old boats and cars and an enormous pile of ash mixed with clothes, charred books, melted plastic children's toys and other barely recognizable remnants of a life.

Over it all, mingling with the stench of a cold fire and the buzz of flies on a hot summer afternoon, hangs a pall of tragedy, because, God knows, this place has seen its fair share of it...

Dorothy Carrington, the octogenarian matriarch of the clan, along with her sister and daughter, lost their lives in the inferno that leveled the rambling, ranch-styled brick house they all lived in...

Steve Carrington was convicted of both murders and is now serving 57 years in prison.

 

[musicaljoke]

The Houston Chronicle requires a subscription, so here is a free article link with details about the house fire in which three women died, including Carrington's mother, sister and aunt.

If this house, which was where Teketria Buggs was murdered, was owned an occupied by the extended Carrington family, then were they living there when T.B. was killed? I expect so. Are they the people who covered for Carrington earlier when he murdered his cousin C.B.? Most likely. If so, then perhaps a certain measure of justice has been meted out. What a sick family!

http://www.khou.com/story/news/2014/07/23/12088082/