Woman Accused Of Killing Boyfriend Showed No Remorse: Police

BAYTOWN, TX —A woman who is accused of shooting her boyfriend to death and chopping his body into pieces with a machete in August, apparently showed no remorse when she was caught at a Louisiana apartment complex last week, police said.

Cierra Sutton, 30, was arrested in Metairie, Louisiana on Set. 14, and is being held in the Jefferson Parish Jail pending her extradition to Chambers County. (Want to get daily news updates and other events going on in your area? Sign up for the free Pasadena Patch morning newsletter.)

She is accused of shooting 32-year old Steven Coleman on Aug. 16, and then cutting his body into pieces and tossing the body parts into several trash dumpsters, at the Briarwood Village Apartment complex in Baytown.

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Sutton reported Coleman missing two days later, and even participated in search efforts early in the investigation.

Then six days after he was reported missing, a human torso was found in the Chambers County landfill that was believed to have been Coleman’s remains

During a press conference on Monday, Baytown Police Lt. Steven Dorris said the case is still under investigation and that they are still looking for more remains in the landfill, the Houston Chronicle reported..

Investigators said that Sutton allegedly admitted to friends that she’d shot Coleman in the head after an argument, while he was sleeping, and used a machete to dismember his body because he was too heavy, KTRK reported.

Image: Baytown Police

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