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The Joker Accused Of Beating Woman, Setting Her On FireHouston, TX – Police have charged three people with abducting a woman, beating her and then setting her on fire.

According to court documents, 25-year-old Garrick “Joker” Hastings told a friend that he had killed a prostitute who had stole $6,000 from him. He claimed he had her kidnapped and taken to an abandoned trailer where he beat her with a metal rod, tied her up and then set her on fire.

Unfortunately, it turns out he wasn’t lying. However, he wasn’t entirely correct. Surprisingly, the woman somehow survived the attack, even though she suffered burns to 80 percent of her body, and had identified her attackers to police.

According to the victim’s aunt, her niece lived with her boyfriend and Hastings, an alleged drug dealer and gang member. She says that shortly after hearing her niece arguing with Hastings about drugs and money, the victim was abducted from a motel and taken to a trailer. She was reportedly held there by 37-year-old Anita Pena until Hastings showed up.

When Hastings arrived he, along with 37-year-old Thomas Martin, tied her up and beat her with an iron bar before setting her on fire and leaving her for dead. A nearby resident called police after finding the woman when she somehow managed her way out of the trailer, now engulfed in flames, and make it to his front porch. She was naked, bleeding from the head and suffering from severe burns.

Before being rushed to the hospital, she was able to give police her name and date of birth, as well as the identification of the people responsible for her current condition. She was treated for lacerations and a broken hand before being placed in a medically induced coma so her burns could be taken care of.

Garrick Hastings and Thomas Martin were arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Pena was arrested and charged with aggravated kidnapping.

These charges will undoubtedly change if the victim dies from her injuries. Which is a very likely possibility and an option she is probably going to be praying for at some point during her recovery.

“The fact that she’s still alive at this point is pretty amazing,” said Jason Brown, an investigator with the Sheriff’s Office. “If she does survive she has an extremely long road ahead of her in terms of recovery, probably something she will have to deal with for the rest of her life.”

Hastings and Martin reportedly have extensive criminal history, Hastings recently serving time for aggravated robbery. Both the victim and Pena have past charges for prostitution.

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  • SayAunt

    I say we collect 6000 bucks for the bastard to buy a first class ticket to Hawaii where we can dump his ass over a live volcano.   

  • CT

    Oh dear lord, she is still alive?   

  • curiousalways

    ruhroh, not the turn of events he was hoping for……..

  • newstarshipsmell ™

    Hate to say it, but it would almost be a mercy and blessing if she passed, so the suspects can face harsher murder charges. I mean, it’s not like she’s going to be able to resume her former line of work…

  • curiousalways

    I, of course, in no way condone anything that happened to this poor woman, but I wish more teenagers would hear about stories like this before they choose a life of prostitution and drugs.  If you lie with dogs, you get fleas.  Many women are in the prostitution “business” because of terrible situations that have put them there, but some do choose it.  Wake up people, stay away from the evil of pimps and drug dealers. 

  • sugarpie

    Is that his meanest bad ass look??  Pfft.  Must be a pussy gang.

  • JohnQknowitall

    Dumb nasty fucker… that really worked in getting your $6,000 back… Take your nasty hateful ass to jail and just remember amigo that “if it happens in prison it ain’t gay.”

  • sherrdbw

    You’ve just given me my first real laugh today!

  • sherrdbw

    What is that shit on his face?

  • http://truecrimereport.com iLLusionS

    Wow, that she is still alive through all this. And at the very least has lived long enough to call out her attackers.What the hell did the other two get out of this by assisting the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man with Cartoons on his face? And that gross taco meat peach fuzz shit he has blending in on his chin…yuck! This poor girl, if she survives may wish she almost hadn’t…..

  • OutOfBubbleGum

    Class: Math Quiz.

    Given:
    If your mother took you to the lawyer store with $6,000.00 dollars at $300.00 dollars per hour for lawyer fees and $200.00 dollars per hour paralegal fees:

    a> How many hours would he get if everything was spent on a lawyer? 

    b> How many hours would he get if everything was spent on a paralegal? 

    2 point bonus question

    1> Hour many hours of a lawyer’s time could be billed with a 60/40 llawyer to paralegal split?

    2> If three people shared the $6,000.00 dollars equally, how many dollars would each one receive to post bail?

    Show all work and use the back of the paper if needed.

    They’d just made their families broke.  Maybe they could have a  bake sale or have a 1940′s musical to raise money to save the farm.

  • newstarshipsmell ™

    You mean his face?

  • sherrdbw

    Yes, that must be it.

  • sherrdbw

    Why do people tattoo their face? What if they change their mind ten years later? And I really DO NOT understand why a person will have another person’s name permanently inked onto their body. Any explanations out there?  

  • CT

    Wait, do you mean that most folks that tattoo their faces don’t become CEO’s of multimillion dollar companies?  Guess I’m gonna have to rethink my Mother’s Day present.  Damn it.  

  • sherrdbw

    Also, what happens if a person has skulls and devil tattoos and they become a born again christian?

  • oOXColdmoonXOo

     From the sounds of it, I’d rather have died x.X

    Maybe live long enough to name who did it then die but ugh.

  • CT

    No kidding.

  • newstarshipsmell ™

    They become convenient targets for pointing and laughing.

  • JohnQknowitall

    He simplified the equation: I won’t get caught.

  • OutOfBubbleGum

    Answers:

    a> $6,000.00 / $300.00 = 20 hours
    b> $6,000.00 / $200.00 = 30 hours
    1a> $6,000.00 * 0.6 = $3,600.00 / $300.00 = 12 hours lawyer
    1b> $6,000.00 * 0.4 = $2,400.00 / $200.00 = 12 hours paralegal
    2> $6,000.00 / 3 = $2,000.00 per plaintiff

    So this guy killed for 1 1/2 days of legal services.  If only his guidance councelor had pointed him into rocket scienctry, we’d have a working version of the Farmer’s Insurance Jack-In-The-Box commercial.

    {Sorry this computer has no spell checker.}

  • megaflytron

    Well OBVIOUSLY I am merely collecting debts all wrong.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1069158605 Randy Whisnant

    These two guys need to become permanent residents of either a prison or a coffin.

  • JGo555

    Oh I so hope she survives! I’m hoping the Joker becomes Robin when he gets to prison & there, the many BATmans will make him ride their batmobile. I hope his batcave is shred to pieces.

  • JGo555

    I wish we could sue gangs. You know how you’d sue a person & their family for shit they did/broke/didn’t do for/to you. Then we’d all sue gangs & they’d be so broke they wouldn’t think of getting together in order to prevent debt.

  • tdavid6

     ”Which is a very likely possibility and an option she is probably going to be praying for at some point during her recovery.” That’s what I’ve always heard about burn victims, that the pain is so unbearable many of them wished they had died. I’m glad she was at least able to give information to police. How horrible.

  • RydoLarsson

     Thats got to be one of the worst pains almost burning to death fuck that nasty

  • Tenbux

    They go have them removed.
    And then their friends constantly laugh at them.

  • Athena

    It’s easily my worst fear.  So many burn victims suffer all that pain (debridement… YIKES) only to die 6 months down the road from an infection.  If someone lit me on fire like this, I’d probably just lay down and die.

  • LeaveMeBe

    This.

  • tdavid6

    It’s the only injury that actually gets worse over time instead of better. With most injuries, if the victim makes it past the first few days, the chances of them surviving increases. Victims with severe burns almost always get worse, then like you said, end up dying months later. Yeah, scrubbing the dead skin off of a burn victim with the equivalent of a scouring pad has to be terrible, for both the patient and the caretaker. Not a job I would be able to handle.

  • Wildheart

    He now joins this group of winners:

  • Califboy

     My dad retired from the fire dept in Los Angeles, he said if you take in big breaths it will singe the inside of your lungs and then you will die, that’s what gets most people, smoke inhalation, so if your ever in this situation, breath like a mother fucker.

  • Califboy

     That’s “I’m a tough guy” mark, except he looks like 5′ 5″ at 240 pounds.

  • Heather_Habilatory

    Or any line of work.

  • Heather_Habilatory

     Fuck it. I’m too pretty to do math.

  • Heather_Habilatory

     I choose coffin!

  • Heather_Habilatory

     I laughed at “breathe like a motherfucker” then cried. ugh.

  • Heather_Habilatory

    Do you think it’s too late for his mother to abort him? 

  • sherrdbw

    Do these assholes look in the mirror and just marvel over how frightening(or fucking stupid) they look? Do these kind of tats specify a specific gang? Help me to understand this shit.

  • sherrdbw

    He looks like he inked himself…without a mirror.

  • sherrdbw

    I don’t know why but I’m just fascinated with this face tattoo crap.

  • sherrdbw

    Thank God the doctors put her into a medically-induced coma. I hope she has either a miraculous recovery or a peaceful death. I wonder who gave this moron the name “Joker”? We’ll see how funny he thinks prison is. And as for those other two idiots, I hope that they get the same sentence. Preferably life in prison, no parole.

  • malq

    There is a person commenting on this in the forums that knows this Joker character. She is afraid of him.
    She also knows Anita and thought she had changed but was obviously wrong..

  • Sam

    Joker, buddy. If after you pay her for her time, you fail to get it up – that does NOT constitute her conning you out of money. Especially not if you then apparantly went back and did the exact same thing 199 more times.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     You lay down with dirt you get it in your eye every time.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     Hmm …

  • Califboy

     Cremate them!!!

  • Califboy

     I sat next to you in school, and you are right!!!! :) ))))

  • Califboy

     Get married and pay everyday from now on!!:)

  • Califboy

     She could be a spokesperson for Kingsford Charcoal, just saying. http://www.kingsford.com/?gclid=CKXdtI7TvK8CFQqc7Qodv3PQxA

  • Heather_Habilatory

    I was gonna go down that road, but decided against it. 

  • Heather_Habilatory

     Awwweee!!!!

  • Heather_Habilatory

     Well, duh. Then put em in a coffin.

  • sweekymom

    Facial tattoos look great on Maori warriors, everyone else just looks like trash.

  • pikeman

    She’s retarded fro stealing 6 grand from a dude who puts random tattoos all over his face, and he’s retarded and a double douchebag for setting a prostitute on fire and putting random tattoos all over his face. He definitely gets the DD reward, not just Dreamin demon, but also double douchebag.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_R7EKXOMLBJQ6YPSBV42ZCYHQOM Andrea

    if she lives, she can play the 2 face to his joker..

  • pinkparamedic

    Burn patient make the last shattered remnants of my soul hurt. The fact that this lady was able to speak and clear-headed enough to identify her attacker(s) is a miracle in itself. I wish her all the best during what is going to be a long, excruciating recovery, and to her caretakers: please don’t skimp on the fentanyl!

  • http://www.facebook.com/HelleCat Maggie West

    My worst fear also. When I worked at Waffle House, my worst dreams were about a cook missing the sink with one of those hot cast iron pans full of grease. Especially with the aprons being some sort of plasticy material that would melt if you looked at it wrong. More scared of the cook then the customers! 

  • chikonanklemonitor

    i would sit behind you and copy your paper…
    POP QUIZ: How many more dumb face tattoos could he get with 1 1/2 days of legal service??

  • CharredBarn

    The reason people have the name of another permanently tattooed on is because they know that they are ready to commit to that other person for all time, due to an abiding, unending love. Either that or they’re fucking moronic.

  • James

    Well, if she really did steal $6000 I would be pissed as well. Some guy stole $1000 from me 2 years ago and everyday I do still think about it as it really effects me so much to the point of suicide.