Leather expert Horner, 31, was recently accused of capital homicide and capturing in Athena Strand’s Nov. 30 demise outside her dad’s Heaven, Texas, home. However, Savvy District prison records demonstrate Horner has likewise been accused of three counts of rape of a youngster (it’s indistinct whether Strand was an objective).
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Horner, who conveyed Took care of Ex bundles as an agreement driver, at first guaranteed he panicked subsequent to hitting Strand with his van while conveying Christmas bundles to the youngster’s home. As indicated by a capture sworn statement recently evaluated by Individuals, Horner supposedly told police he’d killed the young lady inside his van since he was apprehensive her dad would be disturbed that he’d hit her with his vehicle. Horner supposedly let examiners know that Strand wasn’t genuinely harmed after he struck her.
Be that as it may, he supposedly chose to kill her, he told specialists, since he was frightened she would let her father know what had occurred. By then, Horner supposedly told specialists, he attempted to break the young lady’s neck. At the point when he wouldn’t, he be able to guaranteed he choked Strand toward the rear of the vehicle “with his exposed hands,” per the affirmation.
Strand’s body was tracked down on Dec. 2, disposed of in a waterway side region around nine miles from her home. Horner purportedly let specialists know where to find her, the sworn statement says. Prior to her supposed killing and rape, Strand — who was then remaining with her dad and stepmother — apparently contended with her stepmom, Elizabeth Strand.
The stepmother later went to search for Athena, yet told specialists she hadn’t understood the youngster headed outside, probably going to her stopgap room.
(Athena and her stepsister were resting in a changed over stockpiling shed while the house was being remodeled, the testimony says.) At the point when Horner seen Strand in the carport, he had quite recently conveyed a bundle to the home. It was a Christmas endowment of “You Can Be Anything” Barbie dolls, said Maitland Gandy, the young lady’s mom, during a public interview.
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“I should carry her back home to [my house in] Oklahoma after Christmas break. All things considered … she will get back home in a urn,” Gandy said at the question and answer session.
Since Horner’s capture, a lady approached repeating past claims that Horner had physically attacked her as a minor. (These cases were not validated by Individuals.)
Shay Marie portrayed the supposed attack on her Facebook page in 2019, naming Leather expert Horner as the individual who purportedly assaulted her at 16, when Horner was 23.
“December sixth and seventh marks a long time since you disregarded me and dealt with me like you were qualified for my body. 7 years. I was a kid in a weak state and that’s what you exploited,” Marie composed the year before. It’s hazy whether a report was documented or on the other hand assuming Horner was charged in that supposed attack.
Individuals recently connected with Shay Marie for input, yet didn’t get a reaction. It is obscure whether Horner has entered a supplication or held a lawyer to remark for his sake.
Recently, the Lead prosecutor’s office reported it was looking for capital punishment for his situation.
