Gregory Gerrod Greene Jr. Killed Sister, Stabbed Nieces

A person in Pennsylvania is behind bars after he allegedly broke into his household’s residence, shot his sister and two different adults, then stabbed his two younger nieces. Gregory Gerrod Greene Jr., 31, was taken into custody on Wednesday and charged with two counts of first-degree homicide, three counts of tried legal murder, one depend of housebreaking, and one depend of unlawful possession of a firearm, court docket paperwork reviewed by Legislation&Crime present.

Officers with the Harrisburg Police Division on Feb. 9 at roughly 6:45 a.m. responded to a residence situated on Liberty Avenue after seeing a lady “coated in blood” who was “frantically yelling for assist,” in keeping with a possible trigger affidavit filed in Dauphin County Court docket of Frequent Pleas. The officers have been within the space serving a warrant in an unrelated matter after they encountered the girl, later recognized as Brittonie Meredith, per the affidavit.

Brittonie Meredith was affected by what seemed to be a number of gunshot wounds and informed the officers that there have been different victims on the close by residence.

Upon arriving on the home, first responders went inside and found an unresponsive grownup feminine and an unresponsive grownup male. Each appeared to have sustained a number of gunshot wounds. The victims, who have been later recognized as Meredith Greene and her boyfriend Tyler Thames, have been each pronounced useless on the scene by paramedics.

Police then situated the couple’s two younger youngsters within the residence, recognized within the doc as 6-year-old “AT” and 7-year-old “RT.”

Each women appeared to have suffered stab wounds. The 2 youngsters and Meredith have been handled on website by paramedics and transported to the hospital for medical remedy.

Whereas looking the house, police say they noticed a person, described as a bald Black male in denims, run out the rear facet door of the home and go away the scene in a 2012 Dodge Charger headed westbound. A chase ensued with a number of regulation enforcement companies becoming a member of the pursuit of the fleeing car. Whereas allegedly trying to evade police, the driving force of the Dodge Charger crashed into a faculty bus in Londonderry Township.

Pennsylvania State Police Spokeswoman Megan Ammerman reportedly informed PennLive that the bus was carrying college students from Mount Calvary Christian College in Elizabethtown. No college students on the bus have been injured within the crash. The motive force of the Dodge Charger was taken into custody and later recognized as Greene. He allegedly admitted to police that he stole the car earlier that day.

Police interviewed the 2 younger women on the hospital the place they each allegedly said that Greene, who’s their uncle, was the person who stabbed them, per the affidavit.

“Uncle stabbed us,” the women informed police, per a report from the Every day Voice.

The younger women additionally allegedly confirmed that they noticed Greene inside the home and that he was holding a gun. Greene, who was convicted in 2010 on the cost of corruption of minors, is legally prohibited from carrying a firearm.

The killings got here 4 days after Greene was launched from jail for violating a safety order filed by Brittonie Meredith, Greene’s half-sister.

Former Harrisburg Metropolis Councilwoman Sandra Reid, the mom of Greene and Brittonie Meredith, was additionally in the home on the time of the assaults, however was not injured, per PennLive.

Meredith Greene and Tyler Thames bought engaged final August. A GoFundMe has been arrange for his or her daughters.

[image via Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office]

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