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    Death Penalty Pursued for Cameron Almen Elliott in 2021 AL Slaying of 8-Month-Old Makynslee Sanders







    DECATUR ASSAULT SUSPECT NOW CHARGED WITH MURDER AFTER 8-MONTH-OLD CHILD’S DEATH

    By WAY31 News

    An 8-month-old child injured in an assault last week in Decatur died from their injuries Monday morning.


    Charges have been upgraded against the suspect in the case, Cameron Almen Elliott, 22, of Decatur. He’s now facing Capital Murder, Sexual Torture, Unlawful Possession of Marijuana 1st Degree and Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance charges.


    Elliott is held without bond at the Morgan County Correctional Facility.


    The 8-month-old child was taken on Feb. 9 in critical condition to a Birmingham hospital. Decatur police officers went to a home in the 2,200 block of Victoria Drive SW that day for a call about a child in medical distress. Read our previous story here.

    https://www.waaytv.com/content/news/...573800551.html
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    Details released on torture, death of Decatur 8-month-old

    By Eric Fleischauer
    WAFF News

    DECATUR, Ala. (WAFF) - New details were released to the public Wednesday from the investigation of the death of an 8-month-old Decatur girl.

    According to our news partners at The Decatur Daily, the girl who police say was murdered and sexually tortured by a Decatur man had genital bruising that came from penetration. This information was contained within a police affidavit filed in court Wednesday.

    The girl, born June 1, also had welts on her neck, bruising on her face, shoulder and legs and a bite mark on her arm, police said.

    “That’s an innocent child who had not a chance in this world against that type of evil,” Decatur police Detective Timothy Pace said Wednesday.

    A candlelight memorial service will be held Sunday at 5:30 p.m. at Delano Park, according to Derrick Nichols, her grandfather.

    “She was always joyful, always playful,” Nichols said. “We have lots of memories.”

    Cameron Almen Elliott, 22, 1839 Brownstone St. S.W., is being held in Morgan County Jail without bond on charges of capital murder, sexual torture and felony drug possession.

    The girl was removed from life support and died Monday. She was declared dead at 9:45 a.m. that day when her brain activity ceased, according to Morgan County Coroner Jeff Chunn. He said her body was transported to the state Department of Forensic Sciences office in Huntsville for an autopsy.

    In an affidavit filed in Morgan County District Court on Wednesday, Pace wrote that the girl “was transported to Children’s of Alabama hospital due to the severity of her condition. (She) was admitted into the critical care unit where it was discovered (she) had vaginal injury in addition to the apparent bruising that was only possible through penetration.”

    Sexual torture under Alabama law requires penetration with an “inanimate object.” It is a Class A felony punishable by up to life in prison. Capital murder is punishable by death or life without parole.

    Morgan County District Attorney Scott Anderson said he is cautious about deciding whether he will seek the death penalty in a case.

    “I don’t ever want to rush to judgment on that. But honestly, in this case, I’m going to have to find something that convinces me not to,” he said.

    In a Feb. 10 search warrant affidavit, Detective Joshua Daniell said a rape kit was used on the girl “and the results are unknown at this time.” The search warrant requested authorization to take a DNA swab from Elliott, which was granted, for purposes of comparing it to DNA gathered for the rape kit.

    Anderson said he was horrified by the case.

    “It’s just makes you sick when you hear of a child being treated this way, of the innocence that was murdered,” Anderson said.

    https://www.waff.com/2021/02/18/deta...tur-month-old/
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    Judge finds probable cause that man sexually tortured, murdered 8-month-old girl

    By Eric Fleischauer
    The Decatur Daily

    Mar. 6—Morgan County District Judge Shelly Waters on Friday found probable cause that a Decatur man sexually tortured and murdered an 8-month-old girl.

    After hearing testimony from a Decatur police detective, Waters bound Cameron Almen Elliott, 22, over to the grand jury.

    At Friday's preliminary hearing, lead investigator Detective Tim Pace described inconsistent statements by Elliott in the hours after Elliott handed unresponsive Makynslee Sanders, who was not breathing but had a heartbeat, to a police officer in the driveway of the girl's home in the 2200 block of Victoria Drive Southwest at 12:02 a.m. on Feb. 10.

    A police officer attempted to revive the girl immediately, after which Decatur Fire & Rescue performed CPR on her before she was transported to the Parkway campus of Decatur Morgan Hospital. She died on Feb. 15 at Children's of Alabama in Birmingham. A preliminary autopsy determined the cause of death was blunt force trauma, which had caused bleeding in the brain.

    According to Pace's testimony, Makynslee's mother, April Mason, had taken her to the pediatrician at about 3 p.m. Feb. 9. The girl was diagnosed with a double ear infection, but otherwise was in good health. Pace said Mason was Elliott's girlfriend, but Elliott was not Makynslee's father.

    The child was crying and could not get to sleep late that night and, according to statements from Elliott and Mason, Elliott offered to take Makynslee with him as he went to the gas station at Decatur Mall, in the hope she would fall to sleep in her car seat. He left with her at about 11:50 p.m.

    Elliott called Mason from the Popeye's parking lot next to the gas station to tell her he thought Makynslee was choking, according to statements related by Pace. Mason told Elliott to bring the child back to her Victoria Drive home and someone called Morgan County 911.

    Police arrived first at 12:02 a.m., followed a minute later by Decatur Fire & Rescue and then by an ambulance.

    While at the scene and later at the hospital, police saw signs that the girl had been injured. She had red welts on her neck, bruising on her arms, shoulder, face and vagina, and a bite mark on her forearm. All of the injuries appeared recent, Pace said.

    In initial statements to police, according to Pace, Elliott said the girl had no signs of injury when he left with her to go to the gas station. Mason also said her daughter was uninjured before accompanying Elliott, Pace testified.

    During an interrogation several hours later, Pace showed Elliott photos of some of the girl's injuries. Elliott said he had never struck the girl. Pace showed Elliott a photo of a hand-shaped bruise on the girl's thigh and advised Elliott that forensics could determine the size of the hand that made the bruise.

    The next day Detective Joshua Daniell interviewed Elliott for five to six hours, and Elliott signed a statement summarizing the interview, Pace said.

    In the statement, Elliott blamed everything on Mason. He claimed Mason was in bed with Makynslee, who would not stop crying. He claimed she pushed the girl off the bed, slammed her head against the bedpost, grasped her neck with her hands and put a hair clip on the child's vagina. Elliott claimed to have seen the assault.

    In the statement, Elliott said when he pulled Makynslee to the front seat in the Popeye's parking lot he accidentally dropped her and she hit her head on the passenger seat. He said he looked at the girl's vagina, pushed on her vagina with his knuckle and noticed it was swollen. He said he attempted CPR on her because she was not breathing well. He also said he bit the girl on the arm.

    In response to questions from the district attorney, Pace indicated Elliott's new statement was carefully crafted to explain the evidence as described to him by Pace the previous day.

    Pace said he reviewed the girl's medical records and she had no previous history of traumatic injury. He also noted that Elliott and Mason had only recently gotten back together.

    Pace interviewed Mason again after reviewing the new statement Elliott had given to the other detective, and specifically asked her about Elliott's claim that Mason had hurt her own child.

    Anderson asked how she responded.

    "Flabbergasted," Pace said. "It didn't make any sense to her. She was as confused as could be."

    Pace testified the girl's vagina "was all swollen and bruised up," and that a doctor at Children's found Makynslee had a hymen injury and a rectal tear that could only have happened if there was penetration.

    https://news.yahoo.com/judge-finds-p...133400011.html
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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    He’s definitely going to death row. I go to Alabama on a regular basis and the people there don’t put up with nonsense like this
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    Decatur man indicted for capital murder in 8-month-old’s death

    By Zach Hester
    WHNT News

    DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) — A Decatur man was indicted for capital murder Thursday related to the death of an 8-month-old baby.

    According to Morgan County District Attorney Scott Anderson, Cameron Almen Elliott, 23, of Decatur was indicted on the capital murder charge before a grand jury on Thursday, April 7. Elliott was initially arrested on February 10, 2021.

    previously reported, officers responded to the call of an unresponsive baby on Victoria Drive SW in February 2021. The infant was taken to Parkway Hospital with blunt force trauma injuries, before being transferred to Children’s of Alabama. The baby later passed away at Children’s.

    Elliott was indicted on three counts of capital murder, one for killing a child under 14 and two for a child during a time where he sexually abused a child. Anderson’s office stated Elliott was also charged with sexual torture, possession of marijuana in the first degree, and possession of a controlled substance.

    Anderson stated he intends to pursue the death penalty against Elliott.

    Elliott is being held without bond in the Morgan County Jail.

    https://whnt.com/news/decatur/decatu...th-olds-death/
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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

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    Elliott pleads not guilty in girl's death

    By Michael Wetzel
    The Decatur Daily

    Aug. 3—A Decatur man accused of killing his girlfriend's 8-month-old daughter in 2021 entered a not guilty plea at an arraignment in Morgan County Circuit Court on Monday afternoon.

    Cameron Almen Elliott, 24, has been indicted on three counts of capital murder and one count of sexual torture in the girl's death and two felony drug charges.

    District Attorney Scott Anderson said the three counts of capital murder include one for killing a child under the age of 14 and two counts for killing the child during a time that the defendant subjected the child to sexual abuse.

    Anderson said his office will seek the death penalty in the case. Elliott is being held without bond in the Morgan County Jail.

    Circuit Judge Charles Elliott, no relation to the defendant, heard several motions Monday filed by Cameron Elliott's defense team, including one asking that his mental state at the time of the alleged crime be reviewed. One of the defense attorneys, Catherine Carter, said the state has not given the defense evidence it has collected against Cameron Elliott. The alleged crime was committed in February 2021 in Southwest Decatur.

    The defense also questioned the judge on what method will be used to determine how potential jurors view the death penalty and if they have been crime victims in the past. Judge Elliott said the court would address those concerns at the trial.

    No trial date has been set.

    "We have not received any discovery so far," Carter said after the 45-minute hearing Monday. "We should get that within a week, and we'll take a look at that and progress further."

    Anderson said his office has other capital murder cases in front of Cameron Elliott's and securing and documenting the necessary paperwork takes time.

    "Discovery will be turned over this week. We've got it ready. We want to go over it one more time to make sure we have everything in the file to send over there," he said. "We've got so many cases coming down and we're short-staffed. It takes some time to get all of the documents in. We're certainly not dragging our feet. It is workload and production of getting the documents to us."

    Anderson said there were no surprises at Monday's hearing. "Pretty much everything that was heard was covered by the rules of procedure. But they have to do that," he said. "It was a check-the-box kind of day."

    More hearings on motions that both sides are expected to file are next, he said. "We plan to file motions in regards to their experts and evidence they produce," Anderson said.

    Decatur officers responded Feb. 9 and 10, 2021, to a call involving an unresponsive baby, and the baby was transported to the Parkway campus of Decatur Morgan Hospital with multiple injuries caused by blunt force trauma, authorities have said. The alleged victim, Makynslee Sanders, was later transported to Children's of Alabama in Birmingham where she died Feb. 15 as a result of her injuries.

    A preliminary autopsy determined the cause of death was blunt force trauma, which had caused bleeding in the brain.

    At a March 4, 2021, hearing, Decatur police Detective Timothy Pace, the lead investigator in the case, testified police arrived at the home of April Mason, Makynslee's mother and Elliott's girlfriend, at 12:02 a.m. Feb. 10 after a 911 call reporting an unresponsive child.

    Elliott was standing in the driveway of the house in the 2200 block of Victoria Drive Southwest holding the girl, Pace said, and an officer immediately took her and initiated a Heimlich maneuver because she was not breathing. Decatur Fire & Rescue arrived one minute later and began CPR. An ambulance then took the child to Parkway hospital.

    Pace said the girl had bruises on several areas of her body, her eyes were only partially open, her breathing was labored and she had a bite mark on her forearm. Pace said all of the injuries appeared recent.

    According to Pace's testimony, Makynslee's mother had taken her to the pediatrician at about 3 p.m. Feb. 9. The girl was diagnosed with a double ear infection, but otherwise was in good health.

    The child was crying and could not get to sleep late that night and, according to statements from Elliott and Mason, Elliott offered to take Makynslee with him as he went to the gas station at Decatur Mall, in the hope she would fall asleep in her car seat. He left with her at about 11:50 p.m., they said in statements.

    About 10 minutes later, Elliott said he called Mason from the Popeye's restaurant parking lot next to the gas station to tell her he thought Makynslee was choking, according to statements summarized by Pace. Mason told Elliott to bring the child back to her Victoria Drive home and someone called Morgan County 911.

    https://news.yahoo.com/elliott-plead...160900285.html
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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