The guilty plea avoids the need for Gregory Hartnett Jr's son to testify as the investigation uncovered he witnessed his grandmother's murder.
Neighbors, who declined to go on camera, said the victim was a beloved mother and grandmother and a dedicated Galveston ISD retiree who recently went back to work for the district to help out during the pandemic.A man will spend 45 years behind bars after pleading guilty to stabbing his mother to death in front of his son in 2021.Gregory Paul Hartnett Jr. pled guilty on Friday to the murder of his mother, 61-year-old Desiree Reyna Hartnett.
An investigation also revealed that Desiree Hartnett's 11-year-old grandson watched as his father, Gregory Hartnett Jr., stabbed her to death. That's when the child called his grandfather, Gregory Hartnett Sr., who rushed home and found his wife unresponsive. Gregory Hartnett Jr. fled the scene but was arrested a short time later. During his arrest, authorities said his clothes were soaked with Desiree Hartnett's blood.
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