Grand jurors indicted a man for the murder of his missing infant daughter.
Shannon Patrick Overstreet, 40, is already in a West Virginia prison for an unrelated incident in which he beat his mother so badly she suffered a “significant brain bleed.”
Now, documents out of Cabell County say he killed 3-month-old Angel Nichole Overstreet and moved her body to Kentucky. Charges filed Thursday are murder, concealment of a deceased human body, and death of a child by parent, guardian or custodian or other persons by child abuse.
Angel was last seen alive in May 2021 in Huntington, West Virginia. She would have been 2 years old today.
Shannon Patrick Overstreet murdered his infant daughter, Angel Nichole Overstreet, authorities said. (Mug shot of the defendant: West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation; image of Angel Nichole Overstreet: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children)
The indictment doesn’t explain the evidence against Shannon Overstreet. It is also unclear if authorities found Angel’s body. Law&Crime has reached out to police for more information.
He pleaded down in January 2023 from attempted first-degree murder to malicious wounding, and he received a sentence of two-to-10 years in prison, according to WSAZ. Police said that he had attacked his mother at her home in March 2021.
He received a one-to-10-year sentence for a forgery charge; he had signed his mother’s name to a check and cashed it. This was reportedly a Kennedy plea, meaning he did not have to admit guilt.
As previously reported, police say the March 2021 attack on his mother consisted of him dragging her by the hair across the yard while repeatedly hitting her and then leaving her lying on the floor, WSAZ reported. The woman wasn’t treated until several days later.
Authorities described a similar set of circumstances in April 2016, WSAZ noted.
That assault allegedly occurred on a Tuesday around 5 p.m. Citing the Huntington Police Department, the television station said his mother had already secured a domestic violence petition against her son when she saw him enter her home. The woman then confronted Overstreet, police said. Overstreet pushed and knocked her to the ground, authorities said.
Overstreet then repeatedly punched his mother in the face while she was on the ground, WSAZ reports. The victim told the television station she was unable to escape until her dog intervened and got between her and her assailant.
Overstreet was charged with malicious wounding over an attack on his mother in 2016. He was also charged with violating a protective order, according to local ABC and Fox affiliates WCHS/WVAH. He took a plea deal in 2017 on a domestic battery charge and was sentenced to eight months in jail with credit for time served, the television stations said.
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