Overview
- Shannen Grimes is charged with murder, cruelty to children, tampering with evidence, and possessing a knife during a felony in her daughter's death.
- Detective testimony said Grimes told investigators the moments before the killing felt "like a dream" and that she "never intended to kill" her child.
- Investigators reported Genesis was stabbed at least four times, showed defensive wounds, appeared to have been cleaned, and was found staged in a recliner with a blanket and a Bible devotional.
- Police cited texts Grimes sent her sister, including, "If they are harming girls, they cannot have Gen," and later, "nothing you can do now. Sorry guys, I tried to clean up some."
- Officers reported no sign of forced entry and a door propped with a chair, and they found Grimes injured on a couch before she was hospitalized and later booked into the Fulton County Jail.