Man who killed three set to die -
18th execution for Texas in 2003
Christopher Black, Sr.Excerpt:
"The toddler in the high chair was eating crinkle-cut french fries and corn," Bradley said, talking this week about the Feb. 7, 1998, massacre where the girl; her grandmother, Gwendolyn Black, 36; and Black's 5-month-old daughter, Christina Marie, were killed. "She was just sitting there in the high chair where she had been eating."
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Black called 911 to report the shootings and neighbors also called the emergency number telling dispatchers of hearing gunshots from the home. He was still inside when Bradley and his sergeant arrived and was talking to authorities on the telephone.
"He wanted us to know he put the gun down and he'd be coming out without the gun," Bradley recalled. "When he came out, he was holding the infant across his chest. We approached him and he said he wasn't going to put the baby down on the cold ground.
"As I reached up to grab the baby from him, he said: 'I want to kiss my baby.' I said go ahead. I went to grab the baby and noticed an exit wound on the left shoulder blade. As I pulled the baby toward me, the baby's head kind of just rolled to the left... The eyes were open, fixed, no pulse, no respiration, no nothing."
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