Girl Charged After Alleged Capturing Spree of Kids’s Fathers in Two States

Taylor Santiago, 31, was arrested by the Aurora Police Division in relation to what has grow to be a multi-agency investigation because it includes homicide in two separate states.

She is presently being held with out bond on the Lawrence County Jail in Missouri. She has bene charged with first diploma homicide, first diploma theft, armed legal motion, and endangering the welfare of a kid.

Santiago confessed to the January 23 bi-state shootings at roughly 1:45 a.m., per the press launch. She was purportedly sitting within the parking zone of the Aurora Police and Hearth Facility when she referred to as and reported she’d murdered her estranged husband, Troy Huffman, at their residence.

After the decision, the suspect was instantly taken into custody and officers had been dispatched to her house, the place they did discover Huffman deceased. However Santiago wasn’t achieved confessing her crimes.

Based on The Kansas Metropolis Star, Santiago advised police she was getting espresso at a Casey’s Normal Retailer on the night time of Wednesday, January 22, when she “determined” to kill her estranged husband, in addition to her ex and his girlfriend.

She purportedly stated she satisfied Huffman to come back to her residence “beneath the pretenses of seeing” their 12-year-old son. Santiago stated the boy was current throughout the taking pictures, however is unhurt.

Of their possible trigger assertion, investigators stated that when Huffman arrived, Santiago advised their son to cowl his ears in his room as “she was going to care for the unhealthy guys.” She then allegedly got here out of his room with a revolver behind her again and shot Huffman, per the paperwork.

Santiago advised police that her subsequent transfer was to pull Huffman’s physique out of her doorway, in line with the affidavit, take his keys and steal his automobile, with which she drove the 50 miles towards her subsequent supposed victims.

As soon as in Carroll County, Arkansas, Santiago stated she made her method to the house of her daughter’s father. Each his girlfriend and Santiago’s daughter had been residence when she arrived, in line with the affidavit, at which level she allegedly shot each adults.

The Aurora-Marionville Police Division has partnered with the Carroll County Sheriff’s Workplace in Arkansas to research these shootings in Arkansas.

Talking with Wichita, Kansas NBC affiliate KSN, the Carroll County sheriff confirmed that their deputies had been dispatched to a house after studies of an unknown disturbance.

There they discovered a person and girl had been shot. The lady was pronounced useless on the scene, per the information outlet, whereas the person was transported to the hospital in vital situation.

When Santiago referred to as police after her return to Aurora, she advised them she’d killed three individuals, per the arrest affidavit, so she appeared unaware that one in all her supposed victims had survived.

Aurora Police Chief Wes Coatney advised Springfield, Missouri NBC affiliate KYTV that he believes her motive for the shootings was concern over custody points between her and the fathers of her kids.

As for why she turned herself in to police after the shootings, Coatney admitted, he did not know — however added,  “I am glad she did. I want she would’ve come to us earlier than she did all of this so we may’ve helped her.”