Green will appear in court Thursday. Officials said the crime parallels a prior conviction from 1991 of stabbing to death his previous wife who was pregnant.
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Police said Green shot his wife in the foot, slashed his wife in the face with a box cutter and made her watch him fatally shoot her two teenage children.
Officers arrived to the home after the call was placed around 1:30 a.m.
Judge David Turfe denied bond for Green at Thursday’s arraignment. He wasn’t accompanied by an attorney.
ADearborn, Michigan, man called police to report he murdered his family early Wednesday morning, according to WJBK.
Police say a man called 911 early Wednesday and said he had killed the four children. CBS Detroit reports he is believed to have killed the two youngest children with exhaust fumes in a vehicle before moving them inside and placing their bodies in their beds.
Police were mortified to discover the four victims attacked and killed in different ways. Seventeen-year-old Kara Allen and 19-year-old Chadney Allen were found dead with multiple gunshot wounds.
Inside, police found the bodies of Green’s young children, Koi Green, 5, and Kaliegh Green, 4, and his step-children, Chadney Allen, 19, and Kara Allen.The young children died of asphyxiation by carbon monoxide, and the older children were found shot and bound.
Police found her two younger children upstairs, dead in their beds. Police say the man was the father of some of the children and a stepfather to others.
Green’s wife, Faith Green filed for divorce from him in August, according to Wayne County Circuit Court records.
The suspect’s wife was taken to a local hospital in stable condition and is expected to survive.
While only two of the four fatalities in this incident were caused by guns, it’s worth noting that a majority of mass shootings in the US are related to domestic violence.
“All of this seems to have stemmed from a domestic violence related incident”, Police Capt. Michael Petri said at a press conference. Faith Green also filed for divorce from Gregory Green in 2013 but no further action was taken and the case was dismissed. A personal protection order that same year was rejected by a judge.
The woman’s lawyer, Harvey Beck, called the deaths ‘a bad situation, ‘ while declining to comment comment further.
In the past, police have reportedly responded to the home for domestic violence and family troubles.
Green married his wife Faith in 2010, two years after he left prison for second-degree murder. He then waited on the porch for police to arrive, the station reports.
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“He was denied parole four times for various reasons, but they all centered around the main idea that he had not shown remorse for his crime, had not gained adequate insight, and had a lack of empathy”, Gautz told the news outlet. “He completed several cognitive-based programs and was paroled in 2008”, Gautz said. Green was released on parole in 2008, he said.
