This is one bad dude...
Posted on 04/30/2023 11:06:12 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The bodies of a 27-year-old missing mother and her 7-year-old daughter were found in Washington State this week, while the woman’s boyfriend — who was out on bond for a 2017 murder in another state and barred from contacting his girlfriend on domestic violence charges — was named as a person of interest in the disappearances.
The bodies of the mother Meshay Melendez and her daughter Layla Stewart were found Wednesday morning when a passerby saw two “life-sized mannequins” in the thick brush off a roadway embankment in Washougal, Washington, just across the border with Portland, Oregon, officials said. The boyfriend, Kirkland C. Warren, was arrested on unrelated charges while authorities continued investigating the deaths.
Warren was already free on bond on a first-degree murder charge in connection with the death of a man in Arkansas in 2017. Earlier this month, Warren was arrested for assault on his ex-girlfriend and firing a gun into her apartment in December, charges for which he posted bail and was released from custody again.
“The Vancouver Police Department is actively following up on leads received from both the community as well as evidence recovered as part of the search warrant at the residence of Kirkland Warren following his arrest on March 19,” authorities said in a news release. “Warren is a person of interest in the disappearance of Meshay and Layla and, thus far, is the person we believe they were last with.”
Family members reported they had not heard from Melendez since March 11. A friend told the family that she and her daughter had not been home for a few days, and their dog had been inside the apartment barking.
Police said the mother, daughter and Warren had stayed at the home of an acquaintance on March 11, and the three were seen leaving in a burgundy Dodge Charger the next day.
Officials said Warren was arrested Sunday when Melendez’s mother found her 2000 Chrysler 200.
Warren was booked on tampering with a witness, violation of domestic violence orders, assault, drive-by shooting and unlawful possession of a firearm, officials said.
While officials have not said whether Warren will face charges in the deaths, the Portland Oregonian, citing court records, said there were warnings he was a threat to her.
The newspaper said he had been ordered to have no contact with Melendez after a shooting at Melendez’s apartment building in December.
The newspaper, citing a probable cause affidavit that included details of jailhouse phone calls this month, said Warren repeatedly blamed her for domestic violence charges against him and told her she needed to “figure out” how to get them dropped.
“I became concerned by the nature of the defendant’s conversations with the victim … (Warren) continuously blames (Melendez) for his incarceration, and suggests she isn’t working hard enough in contacting lawyers, prosecutors and defense attorneys,” a Vancouver police sergeant wrote in a probable cause affidavit, according to the newspaper.
In the phone calls, Melendez said, “Just tell me what to do,” according to the affidavit, the newspaper reported.
Warren responded: “Brah, I don’t know, it’s all on you. Are you going to get this (expletive) dropped?”
He faces a murder charge in the death of Curtis Urquhart, 57 in Arkansas, according to a news release. His body was found in a ditch. He had been shot in the head. Warren’s $250,000 bond on the murder charge in Arkansas was revoked following his most recent arrest. Officials in Arkansas were reportedly not aware of Warren’s December arrest in Washington until after he was arrested on March 19
According to the Oregonian, he told Melendez in a call, “There is no way I’m going back to Arkansas.”
Waiting for the posting of the photo extracted from the Amish Yearbook.
This guy beat up and shot the woman two week before, and he was on bail for another murder, but he was given bail so he could finish the job.
That’s your take away from this? You are okay with the judge/prosecutor giving this person bail to murder two people including a child? You have issues.
This is one bad dude...
On bond since 2017 for first degree murder? Does this mean he won’t get his money back?
“...Already Out on Bond for Separate Murder...”
No one wonders why I CCW, anymore.
I have since being robbed and shot, on 7.15.75, in West Pal, FL.
I always look to tradition for guidance on social mores and personal behavior. People are not stupid, and Humans are rational in the long-term, particularly with foundational long-term values.
So why has single-motherhood throughout history and across cultures, been viewed negatively and something which should be avoided?
Its because they are highly vulnerable to predations of all kinds.
Letting anyone charged with murder out on bond seems foolish to me unless there is a reasonable question of self-defense. If someone is such a hot-head that they murder out of rage, then they should not be allowed to walk free in society.
Diversity is our strength!
I never realized how many Soros D.A. types there were on FR.
Another innocent child murdered by one parent’s sex partner.
We need hanging in all first degree murder cases, to be carried out swiftly after one appeal. We’ll clear the prisons out pretty quickly when we start having multiple hangings in every state.
Like rape, rescidivism rate for murder is high. Especially in the Amish community
He is black. Multi murderer
Photo....
And y’all be laughin’ to keep from cryin’ when I win my millions in racism lawsuits.
Excellent point.
Police say the most dangerous person to a child is their mother’s male friend or live-in lover.
The Squad and others, supported by millions of younger voters in surveys, believe bond requirements and the incarceration of blacks are part of the white racism that have to be eliminated.
AOC, Oct.7, 2019 Tweet:
Mass incarceration is our American reality. It is a system whose logic evolved from the same lineage as Jim Crow, American apartheid, & slavery.
To end it, we have to change.
That means we need to have a real conversation about decarceration & prison abolition in this country.
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Citing the ongoing chaos and continuing fatalities on Rikers Island, two of New York City’s House members, Rep. Carolyn Maloney and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are calling on local district attorneys to seek lower bails and empty city jails.
“We have grave concerns that excessive bail amounts are leading to unnecessary pretrial detention and contributing to a humanitarian crisis in New York City’s jail system, particularly on Rikers Island,” the representatives noted in separate letters submitted to all five New York City district attorneys on Monday.
WNYC Nov.22, 2021.
I figured the guy was white. Couldn’t figure out why Oregon hadn’t locked him up on the felon in possession charge. Then I saw his photo.
Free to roam for 6 years?????????? This legal system is destroyed.......
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