Dad Accused in Quadruple Murder Killed Pregnant Wife in 1991: Reports

Updated. DEARBORN HEIGHTS, MI — A Dearborn Heights man accused of killing his children and critically injuring his wife before calling police spent 16 years in prison in the 1991 stabbing death of his pregnant wife and unborn child, according to the the Michigan Department of Corrections.

The alleged assailant, identified by police as Gregory Vicente Green, 49, called police around 1 a.m. Wednesday and said that he has harmed his family, according to media reports.

Two of the victims are Green’s daughters, Koi Green, 5, and Kaliegh Green, 4, who died of asphyxiation with carbon monoxide. Police initially identified one of the young children as a 6-year-old boy.

Two older children , a 17-year-old girl and 19-year-old boy who were not identified by police, were bound and shot, and were found in the basement, where their mother and Green’s wife, Faith Green, 39, was also found. She had been slashed in the face and throat and shot in the foot, and was listed in fair condition Wednesday at Beaumont Hospital – Dearborn, The Detroit News reported.

Faith Green was the mother all four children. The older two were from a previous relationship, but the younger two were Gregory Green’s children as well.

Faith Green had filed for divorce on Oct. 11, 2013, and again on Aug. 11 of this year, according to court records. She had asked for a protection order against Green in February 2013, but it was denied, police said.

In the request, she wrote that her husband had threatened “things are going to get ugly” and also that he had “jumped at me like he was going to attack” in an incident that “went on for hours.”

Paroled in 2008

Gregory and Faith Green were married in 2010, about two years after he was released from prison after serving 16 years of an up to 25-year sentence for second-degree murder in Tonya Green’s death.

In that case, he also called police after stabbing his wife, Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Chris Gautz told The Detroit News. “When the police arrived, he let them in and told them what he had done,” Gautz said.

He pleaded no contest to the second-degree murder charge, and was paroled in 2008 after four unsuccessful prior requests to be freed early.

“He was denied parole four times for various reasons, but they all centered around the main idea that he had not shown remorse for his crime, had not gained adequate insight, and had a lack of empathy... he completed several cognitive-based programs and was paroled in 2008,” Gautz told the Detroit Free Press.

When police arrived at the Dearborn Heights home located off Annapolis Street on the 400 block of Hipp Street in Dearborn Heights, Gregory Green was arrested without incident.

Police found the victims’ bodies inside and responders unsuccessfully tried to revive the younger children, who were pronounced dead at Beaumont Hospital – Dearborn.

Dearborn Heights Lt. Michael Krause said the preliminary investigation showed they had been “asphyxiated in a car with a makeshift tailpipe hose that was redirected into the vehicle.”

“Tragedy We Just Can't Understand”

The family had just celebrated Kaliegh Green’s 4th birthday with a party, and decorations still hung inside the covered driveway as Michigan State Police officers processed the scene.

Dearborn Heights Mayor Dan Paletko told the Free Press the quadruple homicide is “a tragedy in every sense of the word”and unlike any before it in the bedroom community.

At the news conference, he said: “I've been affiliated with the city for 45 years and I can't remember another instance of this magnitude. This is a very rare occurrence and it's just difficult to understand the motivation. I don't understand what happened in this household, but it's a tragedy that we just can't understand.”

At least three of the four children had attended school in the Dearborn Heights School District 7, where officials were reeling from the news of the quadruple murder. They were not currently enrolled there.

“It’s very difficult to imagine how something like this could happen to children in this district, or children anywhere,” assistant superintendent Dan Scott told The Detroit News. “This is very sad for all of us.”

The school district is raising money to help cover funeral expenses. Donations may be made through Sept. 30 by calling (313) 203-1000 or stopping by district offices, Scott said.

“A Waste of Talent”

Though the older children weren’t officially identified, The Southfield Times student newspaper said they were Kara Allen and Chadney J. Allen. Kara Allen was a senior at the new Southfield HIgh School Arts and Technology, which opened three weeks ago, and Chadney Allen graduated from Southfield High School last year.

Kara Allen worked on the school newspaper, was a varsity football cheerleader, a member of the National Honor Society and manager of the varsity football team.

One of her best friends, senior Alicia Buford, said Kara Allen planned to attend Salem College in North Carolina, and had plans to become an obstetrician.

“It doesn’t make sense,” Kara Allen’s former English teacher Virna Hobbs-Calhoun told the student newspaper. “She was a bright student; it was a waste of talent.”

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