Southern California father indicted in spear gun killings of his toddler son, baby daughter

A Santa Barbara, California, surf school owner was indicted Wednesday for allegedly killing his 2-year-old son and his 10-month-old daughter with a spearfishing gun last month in Mexico.

Matthew Taylor Coleman was charged with two counts of foreign first-degree murder of United States nationals and is eligible for the death penalty.

"The murder of a child is difficult to understand under any circumstances," Kristi K. Johnson, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, said in a statement.

"I’m proud of the quick investigative efforts by FBI Agents, the Santa Barbara Police Department, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and our Mexican counterparts which led to the arrest of Mr. Coleman as he entered the United States, and I look forward to delivering justice for the young victims and their family."

Coleman’s wife, Abby Coleman, reported her husband had left with their two children last month and she didn’t know where they had gone.

She filed a missing person’s report the next day on Aug. 8 and tracked his phone to Rosarito, Mexico.

On Aug. 9, border officials made contact with him at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego returning to the U.S. without his children.

The bodies of his children were found in Rosarito the same day.

He allegedly shot them in the chest with the spear gun.

Coleman, a QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theorist, allegedly told investigators he believed his wife had passed "serpent DNA" onto their children and had to kill them because they were becoming "monsters."

Investigators said they recovered the murder weapon and bloody clothes where Coleman allegedly dumped them in Mexico.

"There are no words to describe the profound grief that envelops an entire community when a child is murdered," Acting U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman said in a statement Wednesday.

"The Department of Justice is determined to achieve justice for these victims and their loved ones."

Coleman had previously been charged with the same crimes in a Los Angeles federal complaint, which prosecutors intend to dismiss, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

He will make his first court appearance for the indictment in Los Angeles on Thursday and will later be prosecuted in San Diego.

Source: Fox News, Brie Stimson, September 9, 2021

California dad charged with murder in spear gun deaths of his two young children across Mexico border

Matthew Taylor Coleman is accused of killing his 10-month-old daughter and 2-year-old son

Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, was reported missing by his wife after he left his family’s Santa Barbara home with his two kids, a 10-month-old girl and 2-year-old boy, and brought them to Rosarito, in Baja California. There, he allegedly shot them through their chests with the spear gun, according to an FBI affidavit – before Customs and Border Protection agents arrested him reentering the U.S.

Coleman’s wife, Abby Coleman, called police last weekend to report that her husband had taken their children and left without telling her where he was going, according to court documents. And she said he didn’t bring a car seat for the younger child.

At the time, investigators said the wife didn’t believe her children were in danger or that her husband planned to harm them, and she said there had not been any kind of argument before he left. However Coleman did not answer calls from family members or police, according to the affidavit.

Investigators eventually used cellphone data to track Coleman to a shopping center in Rosarito. When he arrived at the San Ysidro Port of Entry and tried to return to the U.S. on Aug. 9, authorities said he was alone without the children.

Customs and Border Protection officers also "observed what appeared to be blood" on paperwork within the vehicle, according to the affidavit.

U.S. authorities called police in Mexico to alert them to the fact that Coleman’s young children were still missing, and a Rosarito investigator informed them that local police had found two deceased children matching the descriptions of Coleman’s kids in a ditch that morning.

After waiving his Miranda rights, Coleman allegedly told an FBI special agent that "he believed his children were going to grow into monsters so he had to kill them," according to the affidavit.

Investigators said they recovered the murder weapon and bloody clothes where Coleman allegedly dumped them in Mexico.

Source: Fox News, Michael Ruiz, August 9, 2021

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