A Gatesville man accused in the brutal death of a 2-year-old has been updated for capital murder, and Coryell County District Attorney Dustin Boyd said Wednesday he will seek the death penalty when the case goes to trial.
Chet Michael Shelton, 27, remains in the McLennan County Jail in lieu of bonds totaling more than $500,000. He also is being held without bond on a state parole violation warrant.
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A medical examiner at the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences ruled the death a homicide and said it was caused by blunt force trauma to the head and internal injuries and that prior to his death the boy had been anally penetrated which caused “severe and distinct trauma,” Texas Ranger Jason Bobo, an investigator on the case, said in the original arrest affidavit.
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The affidavit also reveals Shelton has previous charges for three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child in May 2007, four counts of indecency with a child sexual contact in May 2007, three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child in December 2007, and two counts of aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury in October 2010.
At the time of the toddler’s death, Shelton was on parole after serving a sentence for injury to a child
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