Aliah Christine Walker
Hearing set in 2014 capital murder case
A hearing is scheduled this week for Kaylon Laray Sephus, indicted on one count of capital murder in connection with the December 2014 death of a 3-year-old girl.
Sephus, 27, remains in the Hunt County Detention Center in lieu of $1 million bond on the charge involving the death of Aliah Christine Walker. Sephus has pleaded not guilty to one count of capital murder.
Sephus was being represented by the Regional Public Defender for Capital Cases program, but as of Aug. 31 is being represented by a private attorney.
Pretrial motions are scheduled to be heard Wednesday in the 196th District Court. A trial date has not yet been set.
The indictment accuses Sephus of “hitting, punching or kicking” Walker with his hands or feet, and/or throwing or knocking Walker into a wall or furniture and/or using “object(s) unknown to the grand jury.”
The Hunt County Sheriff’s Office was notified at around 6:30 a.m. Dec. 30, 2014 of an unresponsive female child at an apartment in Celeste.
Sheriff Randy Meeks said a male caretaker was administering CPR at the time. Walker was transported to Hunt Regional Medical Center in Greenville and was pronounced dead by Justice of the Peace Sheila Linden.
Sephus, who lived in the home with Walker and her mother, was arrested Jan. 6, 2015.
Capital murder carries a maximum punishment upon conviction of death by lethal injection or life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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