He Did It on Christmas Day as His Kids Watched

[army judge]

Jurisdiction

Texas

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - The man charged in the death of a Waco woman, whom he is accused of strangling, callously wrote in a Facebook post, Christmas Be Comin & Da Only Thang I Done Did Was Wrapped Me Hands Around Dis B****'s Neck criminal complaint affidavit states.

Kevin Eugene Reese, 28, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury. He has not been charged with murder.



On Dec. 27, 2023, officers were sent to a local hospital to check on a woman who arrived at the facility unresponsive on Dec. 26. The woman was "completely unresponsive and failing to protect her own airway," police wrote in the affidavit, adding doctors had no choice but to intubate her.

The victim, identified by police as Queen Tinisha Louise Brooks, 25, was declared brain dead on Dec. 29. Officers learned the woman was the mother of Reese's children, the affidavit states.

Her mother alerted investigators to the disturbing Facebook post on Reese's profile in which he wrote about the attack, the affidavit states.

The mother told investigators she had not heard from her daughter over the Christmas holiday and traveled to her home to check up on her. She reportedly found her daughter nude on the floor and unresponsive, police wrote in the affidavit.

EMS transported the woman to the hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.

Detectives and investigators with Child Protective Services conducted two interviews with the victim's 5-year-old child, who reportedly witnessed the attack on their mother.

The child told investigators Reese repeatedly punched, hit, choked and lifted their mother up against a wall, the affidavit states. The woman fell to the floor and "slept," the child further told investigators.

Police wrote in the affidavit that medical records reveal "a lack of blood flow to the brain ... caused (the victim's) brain to swell."

Reese is being held on a $1 million bond, per online jail records.

Jail records state he was also charged with driving without a license plate, driving without a license, running a stop sign, and driving with an unsecured child. He was booked into the McLennan County Jail on Dec. 30 and re-booked on Jan. 1 on the additional charges.

Police: Waco man strangled woman over Christmas, callously bragged about deadly attack in Facebook post

 

[adjusterjack]

Whacko, Texas again.

(Sorry Judge, couldn't resist.)

 

[army judge]

Whacko, Texas again.

(Sorry Judge, couldn't resist.)

Having had the unfortunate experience of visiting Waco and Austin, I unequivocally state that Waco is replete with "whackos", as is Austin populated with "weirdos".

Two west Texas towns you might consider visiting one day, Marfa (mysterious lights) and Alpine, home of Sul Ross State University (The Frontier University of Texas).

 

[Redemptionman]

Austin is where all the west coast Californians relocate to including Joe Rogan.

As the native Texans relocate out to other areas of the country. I like the Frisco area it has really been developed the right way.

 

[army judge]

Austin is where all the west coast Californians relocate to including Joe Rogan.

As the native Texans relocate out to other areas of the country. I like the Frisco area it has really been developed the right way.

Native Texan, here.
Born in Texas, loved every minute of living in Texas.

Texas, as has much of the USA, undergone some
disturbing changes.

As mother was fond of saying, "The worst place in Texas is better than the best place in other states. Mother loved being a native born Texan, Mother celebrated being one of eleven generations of native born sons and daughters.

My wife and I are seriously considering emigrating permanently to our other home in Belize.

 

[Redemptionman]

Native Texan, here.
Born in Texas, loved every minute of living in Texas.

Texas, as has much of the USA, undergone some
disturbing changes.

As mother was fond of saying, "The worst place in Texas is better than the best place in other states. Mother loved being a native born Texan, Mother celebrated being one of eleven generations of native born sons and daughters.

My wife and I are seriously considering emigrating permanently to our other home in Belize.

Welp, with 12-15k Texans moving to Arkansas. It appears that Arkansas is the number one state for native Texans to move to escape but it also appears Florida is another state they are loving to escape too as well.

 

[Tax Counsel]

Moving to Belize would be quite a life change. As you already have a home there you at least know what the area is like and what your standard of living would be. The cost of living is probably lower there and I've heard some good things about Belize, a smaller country that lots of people overlook for retirement. If you ever go, be sure to let us know how you like it as a retirement spot.

I'd be especially interested in what the medical facilities are like there, and with your background as a doctor you'd be in a better position to compare them with the U.S. than most. A friend of my father moved to Costa Rica for retirement because it was far more affordable than living here and he was familiar with it and liked the more laid back approach to life. He discovered most health care there is much less expensive than here but that most doctors and dentists also want to be paid in cash. They aren't big on health insurance there, apparently. The only difficulty he had was that his doctors in Costa Rica would not treat the particular heart condition he had. They didn't have the experience. So he'd come back to the States for that.

Some Americans who hear that Central and South American countries are great for retirement because of the low cost of living, lots of sun, moderate climate, etc., pick up and move to one of those countries without having spent any real time there and going mostly on what they've read and heard about the country. But just like any other country, some places in the country will be better than others, and each of the Latin American nations are also different from one another. So some of those who retire to those places pretty much sight unseen end up unhappy. I've never understood why some people will move clear across this nation without first checking out what the new place is like, and it's even more astounding that people do that when moving to a whole new country. Maybe they just see that as part of the "adventure". But for me, I want to know what I'm getting into before I pick up and move. I can do without the adventure part of moving.

 

[army judge]

I've never understood why some people will move clear across this nation without first checking out what the new place is like, and it's even more astounding that people do that when moving to a whole new country. Maybe they just see that as part of the "adventure". But for me, I want to know what I'm getting into before I pick up and move. I can do without the adventure part of moving.

We met a gentleman and his wife three or four years ago, after buying our home in Belize. He said he decided to relocate and retire after reading comments on a Facebook Group for US citizens retiring in Belize, Panama, Costa Rica, and Ecuador.

We've also become acquainted with people who read articles on resettling outside the USA. There appear to be many approaches to relocation.

We chose Belize for two reasons, one being English is their basic language, due to Britain divesting control from Spain during the late 18th century. That coupled with friendly, welcoming people, along with various schemes to entice retirees into settling and investing in the country.

I agree, the pig in a poke approach wasn't for us. I also had a 1st cousin who relocated to Belize during the latter portion of the 1980s. She helped us immensely in pointing us to where we might want to settle.

The health care system isn't what most people imagine. It may not be as advanced as the USA thinks they are, but it isn't that far behind. Most countries today aren't as different as they may have been 40 or 50 years ago.

 

[Tax Counsel]

The health care system isn't what most people imagine. It may not be as advanced as the USA thinks they are, but it isn't that far behind. Most countries today aren't as different as they may have been 40 or 50 years ago.

I've not had recent personal experience with foreign medicine to know how well other nations have progressed in their level of care provided. When I was in Britain nearly 40 years and a friend traveling with me needed to go to a hospital, she got good care but it was very evident that the hospital was well behind what U.S. hospitals were doing at the time. For many conditions that wouldn't be a problem, but where the more cutting edge stuff would be highly useful or necessary they'd not have the resources that U.S. hospitals had to deal with it. Perhaps Britain's NHS has caught up, despite some of the grousing I hear from some British people about NHS. Like with Canada, a lot of that grousing is about how long it takes to get in to see someone for care. It used to be that in the U.S. it didn't take long to get in to see a specialist or have a test done, giving an edge to U.S. medicine. But my experiences today are much different than 40 years ago. Where it used to take a week or so to see a specialist, around here a 4 month wait is not uncommon. I've talked with a number of doctors and other health care professionals at various hospitals and big medical practices over the past couple of years and I keep hearing the same complaint: they can't find enough people to fill all the positions they'd like to fill to keep things running smoothly and quickly. Evidently the high pay for some of these specialties is still not enough to entice more people into them. High student loans payments and malpractice insurance premiums make that high pay in reality a lot less than it sounds.

 

[army judge]

Where it used to take a week or so to see a specialist, around here a 4 month wait is not uncommon

Four months wait to meet a specialist the first time, yikes.

Australia has a bifurcated system, government subsidized, as well as private care. The higher income folks opt for private over public, much like Obama's ACA, CHIPS, or Medicaid.

Those folks with more resources, can afford low or zero deductibles by paying higher premiums.

Australia comes closer to our medical standards, than other nations I've visited or studied. That's not to speak ill of other nations, just my observation.

 

[Tax Counsel]

Four months wait to meet a specialist the first time, yikes.

Yep, it was quite a surprise when I moved back here from DC. In DC the wait times were starting to get longer, but not all that much worse than what I was used to in the past. I learned, though, that DC also has one of the highest rate of doctors per capita of any other place in the country. Having several fine military hospitals in the DC area certainly helps bump up those numbers, but there was sufficient staffing at civilian hospitals there that the wait wasn't too long.

Denver is much different. The metro area is one of the fastest growing in the country and the medical system can't keep up with demand. The University of Colorado (CU) hospital system has expanded enormously in the 18 years I was in DC before coming back here. A totally new main hospital that is so huge that they needed to include navigation assistance for the building interiors into their app to help people find their way around through the labyrinth of hallways. It has just completed a second 11 story in-patient hospital tower with additional operating rooms, labs, imaging, the works. CU now operates a second large hospital in in the southern suburbs and several more smaller ones around the state.

Sitting right next to the new main CU hospital is the new Children's Hospital facility, which is also quite big. A couple of blocks from there is the new VA hospital (the old one sits unused between CU and Children's). Given their location at the edge of the metro area all three hospitals have lots of land to build a whole lot more, should they decide they want/need it.

I live near downtown Denver in an area informally known as the medical district. I have three (not quite as large) hospitals within walking distance, each a combination of legacy health systems, and each abandoning their old facilities to build new, bigger hospitals.

It's like that all over the metro area. That's all great except that there is one critical problem: they have to go scrambling to find enough doctors and other medical specialists to run them. Until they can hire all that staff, the wait times aren't going to go down. I get great care, once I'm able to get in to see someone.