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Police: Texas man confessed in hammer death of daughter, 2
cbsaustin ^ | Feb. 21, 2019 | AP

Posted on 02/21/2019 3:55:43 PM PST by bgill

A Southeast Texas man accused of bludgeoning his 2-year-old daughter to death with a hammer was naked and blood-stained when he told police officers he had killed the toddler, according to an affidavit. An officer's body camera captured 26-year-old Yovahnis Roque confessing Tuesday in the death of his child at their home in Orange, near the Louisiana border, according to the police affidavit. Roque was arrested and charged with capital murder. Roque lived with his mother at the house and it was she who found the girl's body and called police... Roque exclaimed: "The government made me do it."...Roque and the child previously lived in Florida. A friend of the suspect, Abner Santiago, told the Beaumont Enterprise that he received a series of messages from Roque on Tuesday, including one in which he told his friend to start digging because there was going to be "an all-out war.""He was messaging me weird coded messages about the world ending," Santiago said. "He wasn't like this before when I knew him back in Miami."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsaustin.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: fl; hammer; localnews; roque; tx
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Devil eyes. He's in a wheelchair from an auto accident in Florida. Bet his lawyer will claim it's the accident that caused him to have mental problems to try to get him off. He wasn't so disabled to take a hammer to a poor little innocent child.

1 posted on 02/21/2019 3:55:48 PM PST by bgill
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Off With His Head.


2 posted on 02/21/2019 3:59:27 PM PST by jetson
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He needs to be turned into a human circuit breaker.


3 posted on 02/21/2019 4:00:18 PM PST by SpaceBar
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Death Penalty. That poor child.


4 posted on 02/21/2019 4:01:14 PM PST by Andy'smom (Proud member of the basket of deplorables)
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To: bgill

I thought the bottom pic was Charles Manson! What a creep.


5 posted on 02/21/2019 4:01:33 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: bgill
There are times I wish I hadn't clicked on a thread. Should'a known better.

Fry his sorry azz. Slowly.

6 posted on 02/21/2019 4:04:48 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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7 posted on 02/21/2019 4:17:16 PM PST by the_daug
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She looks so sad. She must have had a miserable, short life.

8 posted on 02/21/2019 4:24:41 PM PST by BlessedBeGod (To restore all things in Christ~~Appeasing evil is cowardice~~Francis is temporary. Hell is forever.)
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To: bgill

Too bad they outlawed lynching because if there was ever an evil, useless SOB that deserves one, it’s this azzhole. I hope they fry his sorry azz slowly and soon.


9 posted on 02/21/2019 4:29:50 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: bgill

Weird name. Has that dead eye meth head look


10 posted on 02/21/2019 4:45:09 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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People have different weaknesses. I get that. A person can fly off the handle and do something just terrible.

What is the thought process that involves hitting a child with a hammer?

What was going to be better about his/her life that involved taking a hammer to her?

I don’t get this rationale behind this act at all.

His life needs to end.


11 posted on 02/21/2019 4:53:00 PM PST by DoughtyOne
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Looked like a sweet innocent little girl. At that age, what little kid isn’t?

Of course the Democrats can claim it was just an abortion that went bad.

Laugh if you want, grimace if you want, but there is a Democrat out there wondering how to cover this guy and others who want to erase what they demand to see as “mistakes”.

May God NOT have mercy...


12 posted on 02/21/2019 4:55:52 PM PST by DoughtyOne
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The sad part is that just a few months earlier this murder would be a legal abortion in modern America.


13 posted on 02/21/2019 4:58:41 PM PST by glennaro
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“Florida”

AH HAH.


14 posted on 02/21/2019 5:00:13 PM PST by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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If he was hallucinating on drugs she might have looked like a bug to him.

Or if she interrupted him from whatever he’s addicted to and worships to ask for food he might have been so enraged his entitled self just reacted with no thought at all.

Might even have done it out of jealousy.


15 posted on 02/21/2019 5:12:42 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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Lived in Orange for 2 years back in late 60s. Most violence back then was limited to football games.

Plenty of Cajuns and good ole boys around there that would be glad to use him as gator bait.


16 posted on 02/21/2019 5:18:58 PM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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He won’t fry but unless the Feds step in he will most likely get the needle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Texas

In 1982, the state became the first jurisdiction in the world to carry out an
execution by lethal injection, when it put to death Charles Brooks Jr.. It
was the first execution in the state since 1964.

Texas, which is the second most populous state of the Union, has executed 559
offenders from the U.S. capital punishment resumption in 1976 (beginning in
1982 with the Brooks execution) to January 30, 2019 (the Robert Mitchell
Jennings execution), more than a third of the national total.


17 posted on 02/21/2019 5:30:10 PM PST by deport
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To: piasa

For both of us, it’s futile to try and figure out the why of this.

Expecting a rational explanation for irrational behavior is asking too much.

You could be spot on. It makes sense. Just not convinced we can fathom how a mind like this thinks.


18 posted on 02/21/2019 5:32:41 PM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: bgill
Reminds me of a great line from Ron White:

"If you come to Texas and kill someone we will kill you back.That's our policy".

19 posted on 02/21/2019 5:53:07 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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He had to be on somebody’s radar.


20 posted on 02/21/2019 6:10:38 PM PST by HighSierra5
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