NICOLE "AMARI" HALL: Georgia vs. Brittany Hall & Celeste Owens for 2021 murder of 8-year-old *OWENS GUILTY*

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8-year-old girl with autism still missing in Gwinnett County​

Gwinnett County Police need help finding 8-year-old Nicole Amari Hall, who was last seen with her mother between midnight and 1 a.m. Sunday.

The girl, who goes by Amari, went missing from Hometown Studios located at 7049 Jimmy Carter Boulevard.

"It's possible that she might have wandered away but if there was someone around we want to find that out as well," said Gwinnett County Police Sgt. Jennifer Richter. "Mom said she was asleep and when she woke up the child was gone.”

Police said Amari and her mother have stayed at the hotel for a few months. They live with another adult and other children. They said the mother is cooperating.

Police have searched every room in the hotel, they have K9 teams searching the area and launched their helicopter. They're also looking at surveillance video from nearby buildings.

"At this point we’re doing absolutely everything that we can to try to get any leads that we can come up with. We're going to go back and re-interview any people that we need to re-interview and talk to anyone but certainly with this much time having elapsed it is becoming a critical incident," said Richter. "It is very concerning.”

Police said Amari is in need of daily medicine, which she does not have.

She was last seen wearing a blue Tweety Bird jacket with a blue and white pajama set and may possible be wearing glasses with light-up rainbow shoes.
 

'I did not see her. I called 911': Mother searching for missing 8-year-old daughter​

Gwinnett County police brought in cadaver dogs to search the heavily wooded area behind the Hometown Studios and Suites on Jimmy Carter Boulevard in Peachtree Corners, for any sign of 8-year-old Nicole Amari Hall.

The girl's mother, Brittany Hall met with Gwinnett County police detectives Monday.

She said she woke just before 9 a.m. Sunday morning to find the girl missing from their upstairs unit.

"I woke up yesterday morning and my daughter wasn't here. The door was cracked. I went outside the whole place. I did not see her. I called 911," Hall said.

Hall said responding officers ransacked her room and searched the property for clues in the girl's disappearance.

"They were out here for about five hours looking around. They say they went in a three-mile radius. That's not nothing," Hall said. "This is not a good area. There is a lot of trafficking going on."

Hall's neighbor James Terrell said property management also checked his room and others.

"The rental office came, and they start knocking on doors, checking for the girl. They came in my room and left out. That's when I knew the girl was missing," Terrell said.

Hall moved here about two months ago with Nicole and the girl's two younger siblings.

The child was diagnosed with autism. Her mother said she's never gone off on her own.

She goes by her middle name, Amari.
 

Police say 8-year-old who went missing in Gwinnett has been found​

Police said a missing 8-year-old girl has been found. They have not offered any other details on Nicole Amari Hall's condition.

A person with the mother's same name has also been arrested for child cruelty and is being held without bond, according to jail records. 11Alive is working to get more details about the case.

Gwinnett County authorities will provide an update on the case regarding 8-year-old Nicole Amari Hall on Tuesday afternoon. A news conference is expected to be held at 1 p.m.


UPDATE: Gwinnett County police suspect foul play in disappearance of 8-year-old Amari Hall​

Police tell CBS46 they are suspecting foul play was involved in the disappearance of Nicole "Amari" Hall after surveillance video was discovered containing visuals that were "concerning."

Gwinnett County police have announced they will be holding a press conference at 1 p.m. to provide the latest details on the search for Amari.
 

Police: Missing 8-year-old Georgia girl found dead, mother charged with murder​

A missing Georgia girl has been found dead. Now police say her mother is charged with murder.

On Monday, police announced they suspected foul play in the girl's disappearance after discovering "concerning" surveillance video.

On Tuesday, police confirmed they found the girl's body in a wooded area near Stone Mountain.

Her cause of death has been ruled a homicide. The mother, Brittnay Hall, and her domestic partner, Celeste Owen, are being charged.
 

Police: Missing 8-year-old Georgia girl found dead, mother charged with murder​

A missing Georgia girl has been found dead. Now police say her mother is charged with murder.

On Monday, police announced they suspected foul play in the girl's disappearance after discovering "concerning" surveillance video.

On Tuesday, police confirmed they found the girl's body in a wooded area near Stone Mountain.

Her cause of death has been ruled a homicide. The mother, Brittnay Hall, and her domestic partner, Celeste Owen, are being charged.
What in the world???????????

This is why I can't handle missing children cases anymore! The complete depravity of the life of an innocent child is overwhelming!
 

Gwinnett County mom faces upgraded charges in connection to 8-year-old daughter's death​

Charges have been upgraded against a Gwinnett County mother accused in connection to the death of her daughter.

Jail records show 27-year-old Brittany Hall is now being charged with malice murder and felony murder. She was initially charged with concealing the death of her daughter, 8-year-old Amari Hall. The girl's body was found near a hotel in Peachtree corners Tuesday around 10:45 a.m.

Hall's domestic partner, 29-year-old Celeste Owens, is also charged with felony murder and malice murder in connection to Amari's death.

Warrants for Owens allege that Amari was hit in the head several times on Friday, Nov. 19 and that Owens did "conceal the death of Amari Hall by placing her in trash bags and dumping her body."

Hall is also accused of physically abusing her three children in an incident caught on video, records show. The warrants said the mother slapped one child several times on the back and face, going as far as punching and kicking the child.

Records from the Georgia Department of Human Services (DHS) Division of Family & Children Services (DFCS) showed Hall had been previously investigated by their agency in 2015 and 2017. Additionally, a report received in 2021 "contained no allegations of abuse or neglect," they said in a statement.

Police said Hall's other children appear to be OK and are now in the care of DFCS.
 

Child found dead after being reported missing died of ‘battered child syndrome,’ warrants show​

The arrest warrants for two women accused of the murder of a Gwinnett County 8-year-old revealed new details about the incidents. Warrants detailed how Amari Hall died and showed a better timeline of when it happened.


Channel 2′s Gwinnett County Bureau Chief Tony Thomas obtained criminal warrants filed in Gwinnett County Magistrate Court that show that detectives believe Celeste Owens killed Amari by “striking the victim several times in the head” on Nov. 19 and then concealed her death by “placing her in trash bags and dumping her body.” Brittany Hall is accused of murder by causing “battered child syndrome” after prolonged abuse.

Police believe the murder and concealing of the body occurred on Friday, Nov. 19. Brittany Hall waited until Sunday morning, two days later, to call 911 and report her daughter missing.


Thomas obtained a copy of that 911 call police now believe was a setup to try to cover up the murder.

“Gwinnett 911, what’s the location of your emergency?” the dispatcher can be heard asking.

“My daughter is missing,” Brittany Hall responded.

“Has she never walked off before?” the dispatcher asks.

“No, but we’ve been having problems with her,” Brittany Hall said.

During the call, Hall blamed some of the problems on Amari’s behavior and the fact she was autistic.

“How functioning is she with her autism?” the dispatcher asked later in the call.

“She knows her surroundings, she knows the person and stuff, it’s her behavior,” Brittany Hall replied.


Investigators say some of the cruelty involved two of Amari’s younger siblings over a period of several months. A handful of the beatings and whippings were found on video during the investigation. Authorities said both of the other children are in state custody and doing ok.
 

Gwinnett mom accused of killing daughter had history with DFCS​

A mother accused of killing her 8-year-old daughter previously considered putting her up for adoption and had been investigated multiple times for her treatment of the girl, according to state records.

Now, state records obtained by Channel 2 Action News show that Hall had been investigated multiple times by the Department of Human Services Division of Family and Children Services. A DHS spokesperson acknowledged that Hall had been investigated in 2015 and 2017 with no results. She also said a report on Hall had been filed in 2021.

“Based on these records, DHS had no reason to believe the child was in imminent danger,” the DHS spokesperson said. “We are working closely with law enforcement to assist them in their investigation, and to ensure the safety and well-being of the mother’s other children.”

Arrest warrants for the two women obtained Tuesday by Channel 2 revealed that Amari’s death was caused by multiple blows to the head and that Hall waited nearly two days to report her daughter as missing.


Though police believe Hall knew what happened to her daughter, they do not think she went with Owens to dump her body, Channel 2 reported. Police said Hall gave them the general area where they could find Amari’s body, but that Owens has not spoken with them at all.

The warrants state that Amari died after she was repeatedly hit in the head by Owens. They also accuse Owens of placing the girl’s body in a trash bag and abandoning it in a wooded area in a DeKalb County neighborhood.


When Hall’s other children were taken into custody by DHS investigators, she told them that she had struggled to handle Amari’s behavior. She also said she considered putting Amari up for adoption and had called three adoption agencies before changing her mind, Channel 2 reported.
 

Bond Denied for Mother, Partner Charged With Killing 8-Year-Old Girl & Reporting Her Missing​

A Georgia judge on Wednesday denied bond for a mother and her partner charged with killing and dumping 8-year-old Nicole Amari Hall, who had autism, last fall.


The other children are now in the custody of social services.

According to WAGA, investigators spoke with the Hall’s 5- and 6-year-old sons, who told them their mother and Owens hurt the 8-year-old.

“Officers spoke to (a child) who said Amari had gone to the ‘bad kids hospital,’” they said in court. “They tried to inquire a little bit further about what that meant and ultimately the statements that were made indicated, ‘She died last morning when my mommy went to get weed.’”

An autopsy showed that Amari Hall was malnourished and had several fractured ribs and internal bleeding. Her cause of death was determined to be battered child syndrome.
 

Grand jury indicts 2 women accused in Amari Hall killing​

A grand jury has indicted two women accused of killing 8-year-old Amari Hall and trying to cover up her death.

Brittany Hall and her partner Celeste Owens were indicted on 17 counts Wednesday, including malice murder, felony murder, several counts of cruelty to children in the first degree, concealing the death of another and two counts of false statements.

The grand jury chose to indict both women on the same charges. It has turned over its findings to the Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office.


At last check, Hall's other children were in the custody of DFACS, but the agency said it was allowing them to stay with Hall's mother.
 
Mom and friend facing 17 counts. Just because I looked back up, here is a refresher on mom trashing LE for not searching farther with all the trafficking going on--from above, post #2 in this thread...

She said she woke just before 9 a.m. Sunday morning to find the girl missing from their upstairs unit.

"I woke up yesterday morning and my daughter wasn't here. The door was cracked. I went outside the whole place. I did not see her. I called 911," Hall said.

Hall said responding officers ransacked her room and searched the property for clues in the girl's disappearance.


"They were out here for about five hours looking around. They say they went in a three-mile radius. That's not nothing," Hall said. "This is not a good area. There is a lot of trafficking going on."

What say you now mommy? Poor children. There may be trafficking but what I see more of is parents like this using it to point in that direction...
 

Testimony continues in trial of Gwinnett woman accused of murdering partner’s 8-year-old daughter​

Testimony resumed Wednesday in the murder case against a Gwinnett County woman accused of murdering an 8-year-old girl with autism, Nicole Amari Hall.

Hall, who went by Amari, was found dead in DeKalb County in 2021. Her mother, Brittany Hall, and her mother’s girlfriend, Celeste Owens, have been charged with murder and child cruelty among other charges.


Jurors in the trial of Owens, which began this week, watched an interrogation video on Tuesday where she expressed frustration with police from the day she and Amari’s mother reported her missing on November 21, 2021.

Owens, now on trial for murder and child abuse, is accused of fatally striking Amari in the head.

“If I did it, I damn sure wouldn’t be in that hotel room. I would be gone on the run,” Owens told detectives during questioning.

Amari’s mother, Brittany Hall, was also brought in for interrogation due to alleged inconsistencies in the couple’s statements before Amari’s body was found. Detectives suspected from the beginning that Amari, who had autism, may have been the victim of foul play.

“I think you know where she is,” an officer told Owens during the interview.

Police discovered Amari’s body the following day in DeKalb County, leading to charges against both women. Owens is accused of killing Amari, while Brittany Hall faces a separate murder trial for allegedly participating in prolonged abuse while the couple lived in a hotel.


Jurors watched a disturbing video found on Owens’s cell phone that prosecutors say showed Owens and Hall abusing Amari and her two siblings in their hotel room while the children slept on the floor. Owens faces 12 charges of child abuse on top of the murder charge.

Owens defended herself during the interrogation, saying, “That’s why when we come for help [from the police], we don’t get help. That’s why a lot of people do things and don’t call the cops and handle it their own way.”

Investigators said one of Amari’s siblings told them Owens had taken Amari to what she called “the bad girl hospital” on the night of her death. Owens admitted she used the phrase to discipline Amari, telling her she would go to a behavioral health facility if she didn’t behave.

“That helped her calm down,” Owens said.

Testimony is expected to continue Thursday.
 

Woman gets life for murdering girlfriend’s 8-year-old found in trash bag​

A woman accused of killing her girlfriend’s 8-year-old girl was convicted of murder and 19 other charges Friday afternoon in Gwinnett County.

The jury took less than two hours to convict Celeste Owens of killing Nicole Amari Hall in November 2021. Judge Angela Duncan then sentenced Owens to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus 235 years. Duncan called the crimes “the most heinous evil that I have ever seen” in her career.

“You will never see the light of day to perpetrate this type of behavior and cruelty and evilness upon another person,” Duncan said.

Owens did not testify in her defense before jurors began deliberating Friday afternoon. She didn’t speak during her sentencing either and sat motionless while her fate was read aloud.

Prosecutors told the court Owens abused not just Amari, but her girlfriend’s two other children.

“This defendant was directly abusing not just Amari but all of the children,” Sabrina Nizam, deputy chief assistant district attorney, said during closing arguments. “The defendant helped beat the living life out of Amari.”

Owens’ defense attorney, Robert Greenwald, said there was no evidence that Owens killed the child.

The jury convicted Owens on four counts of murder, concealing the death of another, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, making false statements and several counts of first-degree cruelty to children.

The trial was the first of two related to the girl’s death, who was reported missing by her mother. Brittany Nicole Hall’s trial is still pending.
 

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