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Teketria "Teeky" Buggs 12 Years old

Teketria "Teeky" Buggs
 
 
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Dec. 3, 2005
Orchard, Texas, USA
 
12-year-old Teketria was horribly murdered by her stepfather, Steve Carrington, who also murdered a cousin named Corey Lynn Brooks in 1998.

He had been smoking crack and hallucinating when her bludgeoned Teketria, whom he thought in his hallucination was Brooks. He also stabbed her before dumping her body in the Brazos River, just as he did to Brooks back in 1998.

Teketria was reported missing and was issued an AMBER Alert. On December 23 her stepfather confessed to the two crimes. He made a plea deal in the death of Teketria pleaded guilty to a murder charge and received a 57-year sentence.

Carrington also received a 40-year sentence in the death of Corey Brooks and a 10-year sentence in a sexual assault case against yet another family member.

Carrington faced a maximum penalty of life in prison on all three charges. State law allows a person sentenced to life to become eligible for parole after serving 30 years. Carrington will become eligible to be considered for parole after serving half his 57-year sentence.

Prosecutors accepted the plea bargain after relatives of the victims agreed to the sentences.
All the sentences will run concurrently.
 
 
Texas Amber Alert Issued for 12 Year Old Girl - Teketria Buggs
Dec 5, 2005 - Newsblaze.com


Springfield, IL, December 05, 2005 --(PR.com)-- Authorities in Fort Bend County issued an Amber Alert Sunday night for a missing 12-year-old girl, Teketria Buggs, also known as Teeky-Bugs, was last seen Friday asleep on a couch inside her family's home in the 9000 block of Johnson Road in Orchard. The girl's relatives told authorities it was common for her to sleep on the couch and in her daily clothing.


The girl's family reported her missing shortly after 10 a.m. Saturday. The Amber Alert was issued at 8:13 p.m. Sunday. Investigators do not believe the girl planned on running away, or that her disappearance is a case of foul play. None of her belongings was missing from the home.
 
 
Stepfather Finally Indicted For Teketria Buggs' Murder, Unrelated Sexual AssaultDec 17, 2005 - The Standard Press


Steve Carrington, who confessed in Decemberto the brutal killing of his 12-year-old stepdaughter, finally has been indicted for her murder.

A Fort Bend County grand jury returned the murder indictment Aug. 7, and also indicted Carrington on a charge of aggravated sexual assault - a first-degree felony because the victim was a child under 14 years of age.

However, Assistant Fort Bend County District Attorney Michael Hartman said Wednesday, the sexual assault charge was not related to Carrington's murdered stepdaughter, Teketria Buggs, but another child. According to the indictment, the assault occured on or about Aug. 1, 2005.

The Buggs girl was was last seen alive the night of Dec. 2, 2005, sleeping in her family’s home in rural Fort Bend County near the community of Orchard.

Carrington, 31, who shared that home with Teketria, her mother, and several members of her extended family, was placed under arrest a few days later, during an investigation into the girl’s disappearance, when it was learned he had an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in court on an assault charge.

On Dec. 15, ending a massive search for the girl, Teketria Buggs'body was discoveredin the Brazos River, within three miles of her Orchard home.

The next day, Carrington admitted to Fort Bend County and Texas Rangers investigators that he had committed a murder in 1988, that ofCorey Brooks. Brooks, 21 at the time of his death, had lived on Johnson Road about a mile east of Orchard – the same property where Teketria Buggs lived until her murder.

Carrington finally confessed to Teketria Buggs’ murder a few hours after her Dec. 23 funeral in Richmond.

Hartman said Carrington has remained in Fort Bend County Jail in Richmond since December, under indictment for Brooks' murder.

The county had been waiting for DNA test results before pursuing the Buggs murder indictment, Hartman said. However, the Dallas-area lab that has the DNA evidence has run into a series of delays, and prosecutors felt it was time to proceed.

Hartman said the sexual assault charge carries the same range of punishments as the two murder charges Carrington faces. And because all three offenses are alleged to have occurred at different times, it's possible that, if convicted, Carrington would have to serve the sentences consecutively.
 
 
 
'Teeky Bug's' stepfather indicted
August 16, 2006

 
The man accused of killing 12-year-old Teketria Buggs of Orchard was indicted on two different charges this month, including one for the alleged murder of Buggs.

Buggs, known affectionately by friends and family as "Teeky Bug," was found dead on Dec. 16, 2005 in the Brazos River near her Orchard home. She attended Brazos Elementary School and the First Pilgrim Baptist Church in Richmond.

Her stepfather, Steve Carrington, 32, now faces his second murder indictment in Fort Bend County. Carrington in January was indicted in the 1998 murder of Corey Brooks, who was his 21-year-old cousin. He allegedly confessed to that murder from the Fort Bend County jail in December.

Both indictments are for first-degree murder.

Buggs' family first reported the girl missing on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2005. A search began throughout Buggs' hometown of Orchard and the surrounding area. The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office, along with the non-profit search-and-rescue group Texas Equusearch, mounted a large-scale search involving dozens of volunteers that was covered extensively in local and national media.

On Dec. 16, volunteers found Buggs' body in the Brazos River near Orchard, and her disappearance became a murder case.

Shortly after the search for Buggs began, Carrington was arrested and detained in the Fort Bend County jail on an unrelated domestic violence charge. The day after Buggs was found, the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office announced Carrington confessed to the 1998 murder of Brooks.

A spirited funeral for Buggs took place Dec. 23, and Carrington that day allegedly confessed to his involvement in her murder, as well, according to the Sheriff's Office.

With two murder charges pending against Carrington, the Brooks case was taken to a Fort Bend County grand jury in January, and Carrington was indicted for that on Jan. 17. That charge remains pending in the 400th District Court of Judge Cliff Vacek.

District Attorney John Healey said in February that an indictment related to the murder of Buggs would not be pursued until the Sheriff's Office received results of DNA testing.

Carrington was indicted for Buggs' murder on Monday, Aug. 7, and that was sealed. He was served with an arrest warrant in the Fort Bend County jail on Aug. 9.

Terriann Carlson, the spokeswoman for the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office, said the department is still waiting on results from the DNA tests. Those test results could determine if Carrington had committed sexual assault on Buggs, and could have the effect of upgrading Carrington's charge from first-degree murder to capital murder.

"All of our DNA evidence has been sent off to the lab and we have been waiting and waiting for them to send their results back. And (investigators) felt that they couldn't wait any longer, so they indicted him on murder charges. Once we get that DNA back, if it shows to be positive, we will reindict (Carrington) on capital murder," she said.

The DNA evidence is being tested by Orchid Cellmark, a DNA testing services company in Dallas.

Also on Aug. 7, Carrington was indicted for aggravated sexual assault of a child for an alleged offense on Aug. 9, 2005. Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Terriann Carlson said that case involves a different victim from Buggs.

That charge is also a first-degree felony, leaving with Carrington with three indictments in Fort Bend County.
 
 

‘Teeky Bug' killer guilty
Feb 4, 2008

The case against an Orchard-area man accused of killing his 12-year-old stepdaughter in 2005 and a 21-year-old cousin in 1998 came to an emotional close Friday in a Fort Bend County courtroom.

In a three-case plea bargain, Steve Jeffer Carrington, 33, agreed to accept a total of 107 years in prison. With the sentences running simultaneously, Carrington will be eligible for parole in about 28 years, although prosecutors said given the violent nature of Carrington's crimes it is unlikely the man will be released.

“Our belief is he's going to die in prison,” said assistant district attorney Mike Hartman.

Carrington received 57 years for the murder of Brazos Elementary School student Teketria Buggs, known affectionately as “Teeky Bug” by family, friends and fellow churchgoers. Carrington agreed to the sentence in the 400th District Court of Judge Clifford J. Vacek.

At the same hearing Carrington accepted a 40-year sentence for the murder of 21-year-old Corey Brooks in 1998, as well as a 10-year sentence for the sexual assault of a relative.

In late 2005, Buggs was reported missing from her Orchard home, and a high profile search ensued that involved the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office, the Texas Rangers and the volunteer-based Texas Equusearch.

The child's body was found in the Brazos River on Dec. 15, 2005 by an Orchard resident who was searching the river by boat.

Sheriff's investigators said that just days before Buggs was missing, they received an anonymous letter concerning the 1998 murder of Brooks, and based on that information they turned their attention to Carrington.

The day after the child's body was found, Carrington confessed to killing Brooks in 1998, and just a few hours after Buggs' emotional funeral he confessed on Dec. 31 to killing her, too.

Hartman said he and defense attorney Mike McCann agreed to the deal after extensive discussions. Hartman said he discussed the cases with relatives, including Buggs' mother and father and Brooks' mother, and they unanimously agreed to pursue the plea bargain instead of taking the cases to jury trial.

Hartman said Carrington claimed his killing of Brooks in 1998 was an act of self-defense, and Carrington told investigators he killed Buggs believing she was Brooks' ghost avenging his death.

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