In the decade before Christopher Allgood's girlfriend, their young daughter and a friend were found shot to death in his North Side apartment, three other women had accused him of holding a gun to their heads and threatening to kill them.
He was also accused of having stabbed another student at his Texas City high school.
That's what jurors were told Monday as two of his exes and the alleged stabbing victim testified for the punishment phase of Allgood's murder trial.
Allgood, who was convicted last week of killing live-in girlfriend Courtney Gass, faces up to life in prison. He was never charged in the slayings of daughter Anika, 2, or friend Kevin Bones, 35, but prosecutors have suggested he shot them moments after Gass' death.
Jurors are expected to begin deliberating his punishment today.
Ex-wife Deborah Hagebusch and ex-girlfriend Andrea Bremermann both described Allgood as someone who had a quick temper that often resulted in beatings. Hagebusch recalled waking up one night to Allgood choking her, accusing her of cheating on him as he pulled out a gun and pistol-whipped her.
He cocked the gun and put it up against my face and said, I'm going to splatter your brains all over this room,' Hagebusch testified.
On another occasion, she said, she filed a false police report stating a stranger assaulted her after Allgood knocked out a tooth during a fight.
During a fight years earlier with Bremermann, he held a shotgun to her forehead and asked, Do you want to (expletive) die, *****? Bremermann recalled.
Bremermann said Allgood twice held a hunting knife to her throat. He was arrested for public intoxication on another occasion after he followed her to a police station and tried to kick out her car window in the parking lot, she and a Texas City police officer testified. He would often rape her after fights, she said.
The last time he beat her, she said, was after they had broken up and she agreed to go for a ride with him so they could talk. But when he started hitting her again and driving to a remote location, she realized she was in trouble, she said.
He started saying, You're going to die tonight, *****,' and threw her cell phone out the window as she tried to call 911, she said. I believe that night I would have died if I hadn't jumped out of that truck.
A third girlfriend was not called to testify Monday. But prosecutors said Allgood was convicted of making a terroristic threat after holding a gun to her head as well.
Another charge, for misdemeanor assault, came after he stabbed Texas City resident Matt Hancock four times during a fistfight that Allgood initiated, the former high school buddy testified.
Allgood's exes were all exaggerating or outright lying, his stepmother testified Monday. Gass was a horrible mother who was severely bipolar, addicted to Vicodin and never seemed to make a connection with their baby, Amy Allgood said.
He loved (Anika). Amy Allgood said, repeating the defense's earlier contention that her son shot Gass in self-defense after she killed their daughter and friend. She was a daddy's girl.
The defendant's aunt and a former band member gave similar descriptions of Allgood's and Gass' parenting skills.