{"id":16764,"date":"2013-06-19T13:53:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T17:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=16764"},"modified":"2013-06-19T13:53:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T17:53:54","slug":"death-penalty-to-be-sought-in-east-fallowfield-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=16764","title":{"rendered":"Death penalty to be sought in East Fallowfield murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

D.A.: Decision justified by defendant\u2019s history of violence against victim\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n
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By Kathleen Brady Shea<\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0Managing Editor, The Times<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Gregory A. Twyman, 44, of East Fallowfield Township, will face the death penalty for the murder of Jamica M. Woods, 37, says Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan.<\/p><\/div>\n

Calling the homicide of an East Fallowfield mother \u201ca cold-blooded execution,\u201d Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan announced Wednesday that his office would seek the death penalty against defendant Gregory A. Twyman, 44.<\/p>\n

On May 21, 2013, Twyman called police to tell them he had shot Jamica M. Woods, 37, his longtime partner and the mother of their 18-year-old daughter, at the residence they had shared on Rokeby Road. When officers arrived, they found Twyman on the porch smoking a cigarette and the body of Woods inside, the victim of two gunshots, police said.<\/p>\n

Hogan said the case qualified for the death penalty because Twyman \u201chas a significant history of felony convictions involving the use or threat of violence to the person.\u201d In the death-penalty notice, Hogan said prosecutors intend to present victim-impact testimony from the friends and family of Woods during the penalty phase of Twyman\u2019s trial.<\/p>\n

\u201cJamica Woods was a kind and loving mother,\u201d Hogan said. \u201cThis crime was a cold-blooded execution. We will seek justice for Jamica\u2019s death.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hogan said Twyman, who is being represented by Assistant Public Defender James A. McMullen, will be arraigned on Thursday, at which point the death-penalty notice will be formally entered. The case will be prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney Michelle E. Frei, he said.<\/p>\n

Court records show that Woods sought a Protection-from-Abuse\u00a0 (PFA) petition three times, most recently in December; however, no PFA was active at the time of her death. Records show a tumultuous history dating back to 1998, when Twyman was ordered to serve 71 days in jail for threatening Woods.<\/p>\n

In a Dec. 20 petition, Woods wrote that Twyman had called about 10:30 p.m. that day and learned that she had sought a PFA and that\u00a0 \u201che would go to jail\u201d if he approached her. \u201cHe said if I go to jail, wait to see where you go,\u201d the petition said, adding that she believed he would \u201ccause physical harm or even kill\u201d her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

D.A.: Decision justified by defendant\u2019s history of violence against victim\u00a0 By Kathleen Brady Shea,\u00a0Managing Editor, The Times Calling the homicide of an East Fallowfield mother \u201ca cold-blooded execution,\u201d Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan announced Wednesday that his office would seek the death penalty against defendant Gregory A. Twyman, 44. On May 21, 2013, Twyman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,317],"tags":[3537,1961,3704,3471,3464,3473,3705],"class_list":["post-16764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-region","tag-assistant-public-defender-james-a-mcmullen","tag-chester-county-district-attorney-tom-hogan","tag-deputy-district-attorney-michelle-e-frei","tag-east-fallowfield","tag-gregory-a-twyman","tag-jamica-m-woods","tag-protection-from-abuse-pfa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}