A 22-year-old Rehoboth man has been indicted for the stabbing homicide of his 18-year-old ex-girlfriend who was pregnant with their baby.
“My phone is at 4% and if I die, it was Greg,” Kylee Monteiro allegedly texted her sister on Aug. 6, 2020.
A Bristol County grand jury indicted Gregory Groom with homicide and witness intimidation within the Aug. 7, 2020, killing of Monteiro at his 107 County Avenue house in Rehoboth. Groom is scheduled to be arraigned in Fall River Superior Courtroom on Tuesday.
Groom allegedly admitted to police he stabbed her to demise and buried her physique within the woods, based on the prosecutor at his district court docket arraignment.
Groom referred to as native police on Aug. 8 and informed them that Monteiro had gone lacking after leaving his house the evening earlier than, prosecutor Jason Mohan mentioned at Groom’s preliminary arraignment in Taunton District Courtroom following his arrest. Groom allegedly informed police that she had come over and requested to remain there for the evening. The pair obtained into an argument, he allegedly informed police, and she or he walked out.
Police investigated and located that Monteiro, recognized to be an energetic social media consumer, neither posted to any platforms nor contacted any mates or household within the days since Groom reported her lacking, based on the studying of possible trigger. Police referred to as Groom in for a proper interview.
There, the prosecutor mentioned, Groom informed them that Monteiro left some kind of residential program and obtained a trip to Groom’s home, the place she knowledgeable Groom she was 11 weeks pregnant together with his baby and that she wanted a spot to remain.
In accordance with alleged textual content messages Monteiro despatched her sister, the dialog obtained heated after which the interplay turned violent.
Prosecutors say that Monteiro texted her sister that “he threw me on the ground and pulled my hair and strangled me” earlier than warning her that her cellphone was low on battery and that if she died to suspect that Groom was accountable. The sister and different relations texted again to test in and didn’t hear a response for some time till lastly a textual content message despatched from her cellphone indicated she was nonetheless trying to remain at Groom’s house.
Native police searched Groom’s County Avenue property, which is roughly 25 acres, on Aug. 14 with the help of the Massachusetts State Police, Air Wing divers and cadaver canines however didn’t discover something, based on prosecutors.
They referred to as Groom again in for one more interview the place he allegedly admitted to assaulting Monteiro when she came visiting. Police mentioned with that data they had been going to cost him with a number of assault and battery prices, however that they suspected Monteiro was really useless. They informed Groom that they’d a warrant to do a extra thorough search of his property, together with digging up the grounds, and to inform them the place Monteiro’s physique was.
“Mr. Groom then paused,” the district court docket prosecutor mentioned.
Groom then allegedly “drew a rudimentary map” for police and admitted to stabbing Monteiro to demise with a kitchen knife, based on the prosecutor.
Groom allegedly informed police he spent hours digging a gap within the woods about 20 yards from the place he killed Monteiro, the prosecutor continued. He pushed her physique into the outlet because the solar rose and lined it with dust.
