Tia Hendricks and her two children 7 and 2 Stabbed to Death

[Hellsbells]

Mother, 2 kids stabbed to death in Ohio; beau hurt

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A woman and her two children were found stabbed to death in their central Ohio apartment on Friday after she didn't show up for Thanksgiving dinner or work the following day.

Thomas Hendricks of Columbus said his daughter, 31-year-old Tia Hendricks, was killed along with her children, 10-year-old Tahlia Hendricks and 2-year-old Tyron Hendricks Montgomery.

Tia Hendricks

Columbus police Sgt. Rich Weiner said officers found the three victims Friday afternoon and a man still alive with stab wounds. Authorities took the man to a local hospital, where he was in critical condition.

Police wouldn't say whether the man was a suspect. But authorities said they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the killings.

Tia Hendricks' aunt, Anita Hayes, said the man is her niece's live-in boyfriend and the boy's father. She said they had lived at the Columbus apartment since September.

"It just seems so unreal. You read about this stuff in the paper, but you don't expect it to happen in your own family," Hayes said.

"We talked, like, literally every day," Robinson said. She called Hendricks twice Wednesday night with no answer and a few times on Thanksgiving to wish her a happy holiday. By Friday, when Hendricks didn't show up to work and hadn't returned a single phone call, Robinson sensed something wasn't right.

She called Hendricks' mother and they went to her apartment complex with a few relatives. They knocked on her door, and after no one answered, a maintenance worker took them to a rental office and an employee called police. Authorities found the bodies inside.

Tia Hendricks had just taken on a second job as a cashier at Burlington Coat Factory to earn extra money for Tahlia and Tyron.

"She said, 'I want the kids to have a good Christmas,'" Robinson said.

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[Hellsbells]

Ohio man charged with murdering girlfriend, 2 kids

Caron E. Montgomery, 36, was arrested Saturday at Riverside Methodist Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.

Police said in a statement that Montgomery was charged with three counts of murder.

Tia Hendricks' aunt, Anita Hayes, said Montgomery was her niece's live-in boyfriend and the boy's father. She said they had lived at the apartment since September.

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[VXIII]

I never will comprehend the killing of the kids, I know a person can get so mad at their wife/bf/gf/husband that you could do something stupid out of anger, but to run after the kids and kill them, that takes a special coldness... killing your own child? looks like momma fought back, she wasnt going out easy and its sad to read that she got a 2nd job to give her kids an xmas, she was trying hard, but had he been worth something, she wouldnt have had to do that...

http://www.facebook.com/#!/tmhendricks3

think this could be her facebook... she looks like a good hard working woman, taking care of her kids first and foremost and is in Columbus Ohio...

[Silvahalo]

I figured the injured man found in the apartment with them was the POS who took their lives.

He survives but the children and mother didn't...always seems to work out this way. I hope he rots from the inside out.

Rest in peace Tia Hendricks, Tahlia Hendricks and baby Tyron Hendricks Montgomery.

[Whisper]

Ohio man charged with murdering girlfriend, 2 kids

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A man was charged with murder Saturday in the stabbing deaths of his girlfriend and her two children after she didn't show up for Thanksgiving dinner or work the following day, police and relatives said.
Police said officers found the three victims with knife wounds in their Columbus apartment on Friday. Also discovered in the apartment was the suspect, who police said had self-inflicted stab wounds.
Caron E. Montgomery, 36, was arrested Saturday at Riverside Methodist Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.
Police said in a statement that Montgomery was charged with three counts of murder. It wasn't immediately clear whether he had an attorney.
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Tia Hendricks' aunt, Anita Hayes, said Montgomery was her niece's live-in boyfriend and the boy's father. She said they had lived at the apartment since September.

"It just seems so unreal. You read about this stuff in the paper, but you don't expect it to happen in your own family," Hayes said.
Hendricks worked as a financial collector for years and grew close with friend and colleague Monique Robinson.

"We talked, like, literally every day," Robinson said. She called Hendricks twice Wednesday night with no answer and a few times on Thanksgiving to wish her a happy holiday. By Friday, when Hendricks didn't show up to work and hadn't returned a single phone call, Robinson sensed something wasn't right.
She called Hendricks' mother and they went to her apartment complex with a few relatives. They knocked on her door, and after no one answered, a maintenance worker took them to a rental office and an employee called police. Authorities found the bodies inside.

Outside the apartment complex Friday, Hendricks' older sister, Kelly Hendricks, cried and her father hugged her. Robinson held her camera and clicked through photos of Hendricks smiling at parties.
Tia Hendricks had just taken on a second job as a cashier at Burlington Coat Factory to earn extra money for Tahlia and Tyron.

"She said, 'I want the kids to have a good Christmas,'" Robinson said.

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Friends and co-workers of a woman involved in a triple homicide gather in the parking lot of her apartment complex on the north side of Columbus Friday.

[Silvahalo]

Hendricks had been dating Montgomery - the father of 2-year-old Tyron - off and on for several years, relatives said. Her family had never cared much for the man who once kicked in their front door.

"If I could see him right now, I would ask him, 'Why the kids? Why did you do that to the kids?'" Hayes said.

Tahlia was a bright girl who had the potential to accomplish her goals. She earned good grades. She cheered, swam and studied Spanish at school.

WHY did he take out the kids too? only possible reason he's a loathesome, scum sucking, selfishish, putrid fuck. I hope he lives to see his 100th birthday in prison with a knife wound to his gut and heart. That for starters, then hell is waiting.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Even after the domestic-violence conviction, Tia Hendricks let Caron Montgomery back into her life this fall.

"I was shocked," said Kellee Hendricks, 33, her sister.

But really, it's exactly the kind of thing that Tia would do, her family members said. She always thought the best of people and was willing to give them a second chance.

Also, Hendricks, 31, and Montgomery, 36, had a 2-year-old boy. Hendricks wanted their son to have his father present.

"I think she knew it might not be a good situation, but she was going to try for her child's benefit," said Tammy Milbry, Hendricks' aunt.

Hendricks let Montgomery move into her North Side apartment around September on the condition that he help pay the bills, said Anita Hayes, 53, another aunt. But he didn't.

By last week, Hendricks had had enough and was going to break up with him, she told people close to her.
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Montgomery had hurt Hendricks before. In April 2009, he choked her during a fight at a South Side residence, according to police records. He paid a fine and was put on probation.

Montgomery also had a 2004 domestic-violence conviction from an incident in Canal Winchester that did not involve Hendricks. He paid a fine and was put on probation in that case, too, according to court records.

Hendricks' relatives said she met him a few years ago at a club. They didn't like him from the beginning.

Montgomery was a "moocher," said Taundria Drennen, 31, Hendricks' cousin; an aunt said Montgomery thought of Hendricks as his "meal ticket."

If Hendricks had broken up with him, he would have been left with nothing, Drennen said.
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[Bohring]

My son turns two this Weds. I can't imagine what I wouldn't do if someone was hurting him, which says to me that the POS had to have taken the mom out first. How horrifying for those two children. And did no one hear anything? In apartments, FFS? Horrible.

[Hellsbells]

Tyron 2

Tahlia 10

911 call on Thanksgiving hinted of unfolding tragedy

The day before Tia Hendricks and her two children were found stabbed to death, Columbus police received a 911 call from her cell phone.

The call, which was made just after 7 a.m. on Thanksgiving, lasted about 17 seconds.

A woman screamed and cried.

"Caron!" she yelled about 3 seconds into the call. She seemed to say the name again a few seconds later.

Then the call cut off.

A Franklin County judge set bond at $2 million yesterday for Caron Montgomery, Hendricks' live-in boyfriend. He is charged with killing her; their 2-year-old son, Tyron Hendricks; and Hendricks' 10-year-old daughter, Tahlia Hendricks.

Each victim was stabbed "numerous times" in the apartment at 465 Broad Meadows Blvd., just south of Worthington, according to a police report read in court. It appears that Montgomery stabbed himself, police said. He was kept at a hospital overnight for observation, but his wound did not require stitches, a homicide detective said.

The 911 recordings reveal that a dispatcher twice tried to call Hendricks back after her call was disconnected. The dispatcher contacted Sprint Wireless and learned that the phone was registered to Hendricks, but the billing address was for her former home on Hague Avenue on the West Side.

A GPS trace of the phone put it in the area of Rosslyn Avenue, on the North Side, about a block south of the apartment complex where Hendricks and her children eventually were found.

The dispatcher also called nearby Sharon Township police to see if they had any similar calls.

Columbus officers went to the area but didn't find anything. It wasn't until just after noon Friday that Hendricks' family members and a friend became so worried about not hearing from her that they went to the apartment themselves, calling police when they got no answer.

Montgomery has been charged with hurting Hendricks in the past. In April 2009, he choked her during a fight at a South Side residence, according to police records. He paid a fine and was put on probation.

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[Whisper]

Man pleads guilty in killing of girlfriend, kids
3-judge panel to rule if he’s subject to death penalty

Defendant Caron E. Montgomery, center, with attorneys Isabella D. Dixon and J. Scott Weisman in Franklin County Common Pleas Court

A Columbus police homicide detective wiped away tears yesterday as he testified about autopsy photos of a 10-year-old girl who was stabbed to death, along with her mother and 2-year-old brother, in a North Side apartment on Thanksgiving Day 2010.

A three-judge panel is to announce today whether the man responsible for the crimes is subject to the death penalty.

Caron E. Montgomery, 37, pleaded guilty yesterday in the slayings of his live-in girlfriend, Tia Hendricks, 31; their 2-year-old son, Tyron Hendricks; and her 10-year-old daughter, Tahlia Hendricks, in their apartment on Broad Meadows Boulevard.

Franklin County prosecutors then presented evidence aimed at convincing three Common Pleas judges that they should consider the death penalty in sentencing him.

Homicide detective Dana Croom, the lead investigator, testified during the entire hearing. The 24-year police veteran choked up when Assistant County Prosecutor Jennifer Rausch handed him photographs of what he described as the “defensive wounds” on Tahlia’s hands and arms.

Common Pleas Judges Guy Reece, Pat Sheeran and Richard S. Sheward plan to announce at 9 a.m. today whether they agree with prosecutors that death-penalty specifications apply. If they do, the judges will hold a separate hearing, beginning this morning, to allow the defense to present mitigating factors that could lead to a sentence of life in prison. A unanimous decision by the three judges is required to impose the death penalty.
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The judges overruled objections to showing the crime scene and autopsy photos from defense attorney J. Scott Weisman, who said they were meant to inflame the judges and were unnecessary in establishing the death-penalty specifications.

The indictment says Montgomery qualifies for a death sentence because the crimes involved the purposeful killing of two or more people; they were committed with “prior calculation and design” or to avoid detection; and two of the victims were younger than 13 years old.

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[Morgana]

He deserves the death penalty. This should be an eye opener to women everywhere who have seen the violence in a man but stay thinking things will change, get better, or that for some odd reason the children "need" a bad dad in their lives as opposed to not having one at all. Some women believe the abuse is limited to them, not the children, never the children... This woman obviously supported everyone, worked hard, and loved her children. The thought that she died defensively and not being able to save her children must of caused so much mental anguish in her final moments...the children being violently killed, crying out for their mom...so much trauma and pain at the end...the two year old also dealing with the confusion of his own father killing him....how fucking tragic, so wrong....and it seems to happen to the women who love and work the most for their family. Their hope, faith and love cloud their judgment of harsh reality and impending danger....they try to see the good in people...Ladies, sometimes you have to close shop on your heart and think logically! Having your children exposed to a bad relationship is worse than the personal struggle of managing alone. Safety has to be a priority....I hope this family's tragedy opens the eyes of even one woman who is in a similar predicament, to not be in vain or forgotten...we can't afford to have our good people killed while the rotten scumbags live! Death penalty! Heart for a heart!

[Silvahalo]

I found this picture from a relatives fb.
Cleaned it up, added the names and sent it back to her. I was glad to find a quality picture of them all together. Real nice painting.
What a beautiful family....the loss is so great. Rest in peace.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

For the fatal stabbings of three people, including his own son, Caron E. Montgomery was sentenced to death by a panel of three Franklin County judges this afternoon.

Montgomery, 37, could have been sentenced to life in prison. A unanimous decision was necessary to impose the death penalty.

Common Pleas Judges Guy Reece, Pat Sheeran and Richard S. Sheward began deliberating his fate yesterday afternoon after hearing closing arguments from both sides.
[...]

Montgomery’s defense attorney told the judges that he should be spared the death sentence because his mother and the system failed him.

But prosecutors said the aggravating circumstances of the crimes far outweighed any mitigating factors.
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[HeatherHabilatory]

Good. fry this fucker.

[CbabyRKO]

Hate to break it too Caron and your attorneys but there are many and plenty people out there whose parents failed them but they dont turn in violent selfish spoiled entitled rotten to the core asshole murderers. There is no excuse for something as heinous as what he did. She wanted to leave and make a better life for herself away from this leech and to him that was unacceptable so he killed them. For what? A cell om death row? Being homeless sucks but waiting on the reaper sucks even more I'm guessing.
Run don't walk from an abusive relationship, it isnt worth it to stay. These vile abusers arent worth the love given to them by their victims.