Dad’s sick excuse for toddler’s dying after ‘beating and strangling her on Facetime and forcing her mother to observe’
A MAN who FaceTimed his girlfriend whereas he beat and strangled their toddler daughter has been discovered responsible of her horrific homicide.
Deontray Flanagan killed his daughter, two-year-old Zevaya Flanagan, in his automotive throughout a 45-minute police chase whereas her mother and grandpa begged for her life over the telephone.
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Flanagan compelled Zevaya’s mother, Kairsten Watson, to observe the devastating scene on FaceTime after choosing the toddler up from daycare in Houston, Texas, in March 2023.
Watson and her father pleaded with Flanagan to cease as he strangled the toddler and drove erratically in the course of the police chase, fatally tossing Zevaya across the automotive as she wasn’t strapped right into a seatbelt.
Flanagan was upset with Watson and needed to punish her as a result of he thought she was relationship one other man after breaking apart with him, based on court docket information obtained by CBS affiliate KHOU.
“All I used to be attempting to do was present for my daughter and like transfer on, and I suppose he simply didn’t need that,” Watson advised the outlet in 2023.
Watson, who remembered her daughter as a bubbly toddler, was haunted by her daughter’s closing moments, which she recalled seeing to ABC affiliate KTRK-TV in 2023.
“She was on his lap, and he or she was gasping for air, and he had his arm round her neck squeezing tighter,” Watson advised the outlet on the time.
“He mentioned, ‘That is what you made me do. All you care about is that man.'”
Watson mentioned she responded, “‘No. Cease, please. That is your daughter. She loves you,'” however he continued to harm the little woman.
After a 30-mile chase, Flanagan crashed into different automobiles and stopped in a subject, resulting in a SWAT standoff.
The toddler was then taken to an area hospital the place she died.
Prosecutors mentioned the accidents Zevaya suffered whereas being flung across the automotive in the course of the police chase led to her dying.
Screenshots from the nightmare FaceTime video confirmed Zevaya’s accidents, prosecutors mentioned.
Curtis Watson, the woman’s grandpa, mentioned in court docket that he and Kairsten tried to purpose with Flanagan over the decision whereas he beat the woman.
“However then he confirmed me the lifeless corpse of my granddaughter,” Curtis mentioned, based on KHOU.
[Deontray Flanagan] mentioned, ‘That is what you made me do. All you care about is that man.'”
Kairsten Watson
“I wouldn’t want that on anybody.
“To must undergo that kind of anguish and ache.”
FOUND GUILTY
Flanagan was discovered responsible of capital homicide almost two years after killing Zevaya.
Final week, the jury noticed a video of Watson screaming and pleading with Flanagan to cease hurting Zevaya in the course of the police chase.
“He is killed her, he is killing her,” Watson reportedly cried in the course of the heartbreaking video.
Curtis addressed Flanagan immediately in court docket with a message about his granddaughter.
“You’ll have taken her final breath, however you can not kill her spirit, her reminiscence, or her identify,” Curtis mentioned.
Flanagan has but to be sentenced.
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