Gregory Green spent almost 20 years in prison for killing his first wife.
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Following the latest crime, Green appeared in court on Thursday to face charges that include four counts of first-degree murder, assault, torture, unlawful imprisonment and being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office. Police say he killed their two youngest daughters, 4-year-old Kaleigh Green and 6-year-old Koi Green, by putting them inside a auto and manipulating the tail pipe to fill the vehicle with exhaust fumes.
Green also is accused of killing his and his wife’s daughters, ages 4 and 5, by carbon monoxide poisoning at the home.
Green pleaded no contest to second-degree murder in 1992 and was sentenced to 15 to 25 years in prison, Gautz said.
Police Capt. Michael Petri said the situation “seems to have stemmed from a domestic violence related incident”, adding that police have never been called to the home in the past. Green is suspected of killing two young children and two teenagers and critically injured his wife at his at.
In Dearborn Heights, Krause said officers arriving at the family’s home found a auto parked outside with a hose hooked to the exhaust.
His current wife, Faith Green, had filed for divorce twice and an order of protection, citing a “breakdown in the marriage relationship” in the recent second divorce filing.
The call was then routed to Dearborn Heights, which responded and spoke with a male suspect at the house who said he had just shot his family members members, police said. With her, he quickly fathered two of his own – one was five years old, and the other turned four just two weeks ago. Green, 49, is in custody. Inside the home, they found the deceased bodies of four children. She is reportedly in fair condition at a nearby hospital.
Green’s wife filed for divorce last month, the newspaper reported. Police say he also confessed to the execution-style shooting deaths of his two teenage stepchildren. In the basement, he says they found the bodies of a 17-year-old girl and a 19-year-old man along with their mother, who had gunshot and knife wounds.
Police said they expect to release more details as the investigation progresses.
“The alleged evidence in this case will show an appalling level of domestic violence that was cataclysmic”, prosecutor Kym Worthy said in a statement. “I mean, I don’t think I deserve it”.
Friends and loved ones of the family left candles, stuffed animals and notes of sympathy at a growing makeshift memorial outside the Hipp St. home Thursday.
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Mayor Dan Paletko called the killings “a tragedy in every sense of the word”. Neighbors who live in the area said the house was always quiet and that the younger children would regularly play in the front yard.
