Missing Pregnant Woman From Kilgore Missing For Almost Two Months

[Satanica]

http://thedrumbeat.com/news/pregnant-woman-from-kilgore-missing-for-almost-two-months-2/

Grant was eight months pregnant at the time of her disappearance. Since then, her home that she shared with her older sister has been burnt to the ground. According to Assistant Police Chief for Kilgore, Roman Roberson, Grant’s disappearance and the burning of her home are not related.

She was last seen around midnight Saturday, Aug. 20. She was scheduled to work the following day at the local Chicken Express, but never showed up. No one has been able to contact Grant.

TJC Alumni and nursing graduate Angela Jenkins considered Grant a close family friend. Grant even participated in Jenkins’ wedding.

“I think that all TJC students, all people in general, have a female relative. [Whether it be a] mom, sister, aunt … or even a friend. Sheryia fits all those roles,” said Jenkins. “The thought of someone knowing where her and her baby are, but chose not to tell is sickening.”

Further details about Grant’s disappearance have not been released. Although her due date has passed, family and friends are still hopeful in the fact that she is still out there somewhere.

“As time goes on, people are forgetting about her and the baby, not sharing missing post as much,” said Jenkins. “It’s out of sight, out of mind. We need the word to stay fresh in East Texas until someone is tired of hearing her name, seeing her face and they will come forward with info.”

Grant’s family managed to put enough money together to offer a $10,000 reward to anyone able to provide information about her.
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[Muriel Schwenck]

The baby daddy killed her. IMO

 

[cubby]

According to Assistant Police Chief for Kilgore, Roman Roberson, Grant’s disappearance and the burning of her home are not related.

Assistant police chief is most likely an idiot. I think she was killed in there and then the house burned to get rid of the evidence. Maybe not, but it really sounds likely. If she was just hiding out, I feel she would have reappeared for the birth or very shortly thereafter. This young lady can't come home, I'm afraid.

 

[thesuicidemonger]

Fire victim seeks help in search of sister, new home

The house where Grant and her children were living – and where her sister was living when she disappeared – caught fire in the late evening of Sept. 18. Emergency responders received the fire call at 11:09 p.m., but the house is considered a “total loss.”

Grant is now looking for help so she and her children can reestablish themselves in a new home. The search for a new home has not been easy, though.
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The reason Grant and her children were moving in the first place was because of Sheryia’s baby and the lack of care, she said, she felt from her landlord.

Grant said the house had two electrical problems in the last two months with the electricity in the living room going out, leaving only one functioning outlet.
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Two days after the fire, the Kilgore Assistant Fire Chief Mike Simmons said, the evidence did not link the fire with Sheryia’s disappearance, which was upgraded to a criminal investigation from a missing person’s case by the Kilgore Police Department on Sept. 1.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Simmons said, the official cause of the fire is still under investigation by Kilgore Fire Marshal Brandon Bigos.

As Grant continues her search, she said, she wants to make sure her sister is not forgotten.

“Whatever happens, it’s all for her… I don’t want no one to forget. She’s still not here,” Grant said.

http://kilgorenewsherald.com/stories/fire-victim-seeks-help-in-search-of-sister-new-home,102835

Possible arson involving missing Kilgore woman's home

KILGORE - Sheryia Grant hasn't posted anything new on her Facebook for almost two months. The 20-year-old was supposed to have her baby daughter Lyanna Elise-Ree Grant on September 16. Her daughter would be a month old. Grant's sister, Sheaira Grant, said she doesn't want people to forget her sibling.

"She's still missing," Grant said.

After her house mysteriously caught on fire, CBS 19 sent a freedom of information act request to the fire department. They were looking for answers to whether or not Grant's home was set on fire intentionally.

The city attorney Robert Schleier responded the request with a letter that said there is an active investigation to possible arson and insurance fraud.

CBS 19 contacted Sheryia Grant's aunt Ray-Neshia Kervin by phone. She said she doesn't believe the fire has anything to do with insurance. The house the Grant sisters lived in was a rental and Sheaira was at work while it was on fire.

"If anybody that know her [Sheaira] is that she always works over night," Kervin said. "If anybody would get money from the house burning down it would be the land lord and I don't think he would set his house on fire."

The Kilgore police department said they're confident Sheryia Grant will be found. Since her missing case switched to a criminal investigation, Kervin said she believes the department is doing what they can to find her.

There is a 10 thousand dollar reward for information leading to her whereabouts.

http://www.cbs19.tv/news/local/possible-arson-involving-missing-kilgore-womans-home/337172743

 

[Sudonim]

The house the Grant sisters lived in was a rental and Sheaira was at work while it was on fire.

Wait what? She went missing Aug. 20 and the house burnt sept. 18th. How was she at work when it happened?

ETA: My bad. I just realized the aunt meant the sister. Their names are way to close to each other lol Sheryia and Sheaira

 

[Keepalowprofile]

Wait what? She went missing Aug. 20 and the house burnt sept. 18th. How was she at work when it happened?

ETA: My bad. I just realized the aunt meant the sister. Their names are way to close to each other lol Sheryia and Sheaira

:hilarious::hilarious:
That happems to me a lot before my 3rd cup of coffee.

 

[lalalandmamma]

The sister was arrested for arson and insurance fraud for the house fire.

http://www.cbs19.tv/mb/news/crime/s...-woman-arrested-for-insurance-fraud/345775779

Shearia Grant, 23, the sister of missing Kilgore woman Sheryia Grant, was arrested on Monday and charged with insurance fraud in connection with the fire of the home they rented together.

http://www.kilgorenewsherald.com/stories/authorities-pursuesuspected-arsonist,104386

KPD arrested the renter of the property, Sheaira Grant, Oct. 29 on an outstanding warrant for insurance fraud. In the days following the fire, a search warrant affidavit states Grant received $2,500 on her insurance claim after the cause of the fire was determined to be arson.

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Grant, who first told Bigos she did not have insurance on the property, had removed much of her belongings from the house in the days leading up to the fire, including clothing and picture frames she said decorated the home, shown in a Facebook video Grant posted the day before the fire.

The affidavit also states Grant took out the renter’s insurance policy on the house less than three months before the fire.

Kilgore Assistant Fire Chief Mike Simmons said there does not appear to be a connection between the fire and the disappearance of Grant’s sister Sheryia in August.

 

[Abroad]

Kilgore Assistant Fire Chief Mike Simmons said there does not appear to be a connection between the fire and the disappearance of Grant’s sister Sheryia in August.

Makes you side-eye the sister something acutely, though

 

[lithiumgirl]

I wonder where this lady and her little girl are ...

 

[Snoods]

Sheryia Grant

Allen Lamont Sutton, 28, and Laneshia Lashae Young, 22

Three people, including one juvenile, arrested in disappearance of Sheryia Grant

A juvenile from Arp was taken into custody Monday in Rusk County in connection with the disappearance of Sheryia Grant, 20, Kilgore police Assistant Chief Roman Roberson said in a statement. The victim was eight months pregnant when she was reported missing Aug. 20.

The arrest was the result of a two-count indictment on tampering with or fabricating evidence (human corpse) and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence charges, Roberson said.

The two charges are the same that Laneshia Lashae Young, 22, and Allen Lamont Sutton, 28, are facing in connection with the disappearance of Grant, who police now say was killed soon after she was reported missing. They were arrested Wednesday in Longview, and each was being held under $500,000 bond.

A Rusk County grand jury on March 1 returned sealed indictments for Young and Sutton, Roberson said. The indictment for the minor, who was not identified, also came from the grand jury.

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Police said last week that evidence uncovered during the investigation indicated Grant was killed shortly after she was reported missing, but her body has not been found. Police have offered no further details about that finding.

Roberson was not available for comment Monday, and did not return phone messages seeking more information.

In his statement Monday afternoon Roberson said only, “Additional forensic evidence is still being evaluated and processed along with ongoing investigative activity.”

Kilgore police last year initially declined to say they suspected foul play in Grant’s disappearance, but by Sept. 1 said their investigation had transformed from a missing persons case to a criminal investigation. No explanation was given.

https://www.news-journal.com/news/2017/mar/13/third-person-juvenile-arrested-disappearance-shery/

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Two people are facing capital murder charges accused of killing a pregnant Kilgore woman in 2016 and setting her on fire.

A grand jury indicted Allen Lamont Sutton Jr., 33, and Laneshia Lashae Young, 29, on charges of capital murder of multiple persons in the disappearance and death of Sheryia Grant, 20, who was eight months pregnant when she was reported missing in August 2016. Her body has never been found.

Sutton was the father of Grant’s unborn child and Young was Grant's cousin.

According to Smith County indictments on Dec. 2, around Aug. 20, 2016, Sutton and Young intentionally and knowingly caused Grant's death by striking her with a blunt object and setting Grant on fire with accelerant and at the same they caused the death of Grant's unborn child.

Two people charged with capital murder, accused of killing, burning Sheryia Grant in 2016

Sheryia Grant, 20, who was eight months pregnant when she was reported missing in August 2016, has never been found.

www.cbs19.tv

In Rusk County, Sutton was sentenced to 10 years in prison on April 17, 2019, for tampering with physical evidence related to the killing of Grant in connection with the concealment of a trunk liner missing from a car he shared with Young.

Chief Justice Josh Morriss III of the 6th Court of Appeals in Texarkana later upheld the 10-year sentence. The ruling said with the presented evidence a jury could find Sutton removed and concealed a trunk liner, or cooperated with Young in such actions, to keep it out of any investigation into Grant’s disappearance.

The appellate court’s ruling goes into a detailed description of Sutton’s relationship with Young and souring relationship with Grant, including that, while Young was serving jail time, Sutton lived with and impregnated Grant, her cousin.

Morriss wrote that Ashley Odom, who lived with her boyfriend, Sutton and Grant at the time, testified Grant told a friend she loved Sutton, who “seized the phone, choked Grant and told her he would kill her.” Young also assaulted Grant in Sutton’s presence three months before she disappeared, Odom testified.

Sutton and Young jointly owned a car that was repossessed after Grant disappeared, the ruling said. The creditor noticed the car was missing a trunk liner, spare tire and jack, with traces of Grant’s blood found on the underside of the trunk’s lid.

The ruling said blood was found on the wiring from the trunk into the trunk’s lid, but that the blood was not tested. Morriss said in the ruling the wiring looked like a person was “trying to escape the trunk.”

Sutton is also awaiting trial out of Gregg County for a solicitation of capital murder charge, which he entered a not guilty plea in 2019. A Gregg County grand jury indictment states Sutton on or about Aug. 1, 2016, attempted to “induce” Nicholas Williams to murder Grant.

Young was sentenced in July to eight years in prison on a charge of tampering with physical evidence in connection with the case.

Two people charged with capital murder, accused of killing, burning Sheryia Grant in 2016

Court documents allege two people hit and set a Kilgore woman, who has been missing since 2016, on fire causing the deaths of her and her unborn child.

tylerpaper.com

Sheryia Ronsha Grant – The Charley Project

Grant was last seen in Kilgore, Texas at approximately midnight on the night of August 19-20, 2016. She has never been heard from again.

Her family never believed she had left of her own accord, as she was looking forward the birth of her baby and had purchased many things for it. She spent part of every paycheck from her job at the Chicken Express on baby clothes, diapers and other supplies, and she planned to take only a short maternity leave so she could provide for her daughter.

The baby things, and all of Grant's belongings, were left behind. Authorities found evidence that indicates both Grant and her unborn daughter were killed shortly after Grant was reported missing.

Grant's house in the 700 block of Martin Luther King Street caught fire and was completely destroyed a month after her disappearance, but investigators don't think this was related to her disappearance. Two suspects were charged with insurance fraud in connection with the fire. One of them was Grant's older sister, who also lived in that house.

Grant's family stated Sutton her ex-boyfriend and the father of her unborn child, and that he had repeatedly threatened her after she became pregnant. A car belonging to Young and Sutton was repossessed after Grant disappeared, and the trunk liner was discovered to be missing. There was blood in the trunk and DNA matched it to Grant.

Both suspects were convicted of tampering with physical evidence with intent to impair a missing persons investigation, although Sutton is appealing his conviction. Although investigators believe Grant was a homicide victim, no one has been charged in connection with her actual presumed death and her body has never been found. Her case remains unsolved.

 

[McDanel]

I was way off on this one. I thought it was the baby daddy and current girlfriend, instead it's a cousin. -_-

 

[Victoria]

@McDanel

I was right there with you in your thinking.

Can anyone enlighten me on why the accused are wearing the black plastic cover-all in their mug shots???

 

[Sudonim]

I was way off on this one. I thought it was the baby daddy and current girlfriend, instead it's a cousin. -_-

You werent totally wrong. One of the blurbs in the middle says they were in a relationship and when she was in jail he moved in with and knocked up her cousin who was murdered.

The appellate court’s ruling goes into a detailed description of Sutton’s relationship with Young and souring relationship with Grant, including that, while Young was serving jail time, Sutton lived with and impregnated Grant, her cousin.

 

[Sejanus]

Can anyone enlighten me on why the accused are wearing the black plastic cover-all in their mug shots???

I'm going to go with garbage bags.
Or oversized dog crap bags.
In this case frankly either works well!