Body Of Murdered Saginaw Girl Identified As 6-Year-Old Alanna Gallagher

[texasmom]

Alanna Gallagher 



 

Rest in peace sweet angel, Alanna.   

I'm so sorry this happened to you.   

Prayers for peace and comfort for all who loved this precious little girl.

[labubske]

I'm absolutely devastated for sweet Alanna and her family.  I just cannot believe the monsters that could be in our neighborhoods.  I hope that this will force parents to take a deeper look at their teens and in their teens room...for goodness sakes.  Did you all see what all they found in there?  I don't have a link right now...or I would post it.  I realize that she is a single mom and who knows what her schedule is or how many jobs she may have...I am a single mom of three...and have two jobs...and tutor on the side.  I still make time to go through my teens phone and facebook...I know who their friends are...I know what they do...what they look up on Google...I'm THAT Mom.  But, that's okay.  It gets on their nerves...but, it also keeps them out of trouble.  I am by no means blaming her...because I do not know the situation that she was in.  Maybe she feared him.  Maybe he hid it really well.  Who knows. 

I am so thankful that I held off on my original thoughts in this case.  I didn't have bad vibes about the family...I just didn't understand a few things.  Now I do.  I think that it was Bearlythere (am I remembering that correctly?) that shared their experience of posting stuff too soon...and the outcome of that...and what was learned from it.  I am so thankful for that post, because it really reminds me to hold off on speculation in cases like this.  How devastating that must be to read online...

[cw618]

Wounded Arlington officer who tried to arrest Tyler Holder is now out of the hospital
By Tristan Hallman
thallman@dallasnews.com
5:21 pm on July 29, 2013 | Permalink
 
About a week after he was shot by a man suspected of raping and killing a 6-year-old Saginaw girl, Arlington police detective Charles Lodatto was released from the hospital.
 
Lodatto left the hospital around noon Monday, Arlington police spokeswoman Tiara Richard said. He will continue to recover at home.
 
Holder is still recovering at John Peter Smith Hospital, where he awaits a transfer to jail
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2013/07/wounded-arlington-officer-who-tried-to-arrest-tyler-holder-is-now-out-of-the-hospital.html/

[cw618]

the fear Alanna, must have felt ,when she looked into those eyes
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First picture of man who raped and murdered girl, 6, then dumped her body in tarp - after he was shot by police in stand-off
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED:20:27 EST, 7 August 2013| UPDATED: 05:16 EST, 8 August 2013

 
The first picture has emerged of the 17-year-old suspect charged with the horrific murder of a beautiful six-year-old girl, whose body was wrapped in a tarp and dumped in a quiet Fort Worth, Texas, suburb last month
 
On Wednesday, Holder was released from John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth and was booked into the Tarrant County Jail on charges of capital murder and attempted capital murder.
In his booking photo, a bandage can be plainly seen on Holder's throat.
A spokesman for the Tarrant County Sheriff's Department told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that Holder was shot under the chin during a brief gun battle with officers.
 
Holder must still undergo regular medical care in jail, but authorities had him transferred from the hospital - where he had been recovering - for security reasons.
He is currently separated from the jail's general population, so he can receive medical attention and continue to heal.
MORE

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2386622/Tyler-Holder-pictured-Suspect-murder-Alanna-Gallagher-6-recovered-police-shooting.html


Wounded: This is the first picture of Tyler Holder, 17, since he was shot under the chin by a police officer

[MuffyBee]

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/tarrant/School-memorial-planned-for-slain-Saginaw-girl--227280331.html
School plans permanent memorial for slain Saginaw girl
October 10, 2013

SAGINAW –– Police and school officials in Saginaw are drawing up extensive plans for a memorial site at Willow Creek Elementary School to honor the life of 6-year-old Alanna Gallagher, who was kidnapped and murdered this summer.
The school is now jumping behind the plan to build a "living" memorial, which will remember the little girl and serve as a place for children to learn outside.
 
The design is the handwork of David Carter, a former Saginaw police officer, and others from the Specialists Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club.
 
The plan is to soon start building a structure on the west side of the school. It will consist of a semi-circle of stone with two levels of carved seating that will stretch around an engraving on a stone for Alanna.
The Gallagher family will select the engraving. The hope is for the area to be frequently used as a place for both reflection and also for instruction in an outside environment.
 
A fundraiser is scheduled for Saturday night to help raise money for the $25,000 project. Carter stressed that materials and manpower time will be donated, so neither the school or the family will have to pay a dime.
 
The event is scheduled for this Saturday from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at 1112 NE 29th Street in Fort Worth at the MC Clubhouse. There will be music from a local classic rock band and $10 donations will be accepted at the door.
The hope is to break ground on the project with the next two months. Tyler Holder, 17, is charged in her death. He's also charged with attempted murder for shooting an officer who was attempting to arrest him. Holder remains jailed in Tarrant County on a $1 million bond.

[MuffyBee]

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/tarrant/Saginaw-residents-raise-money-for-memorial-to-murdered-girl-228550751.html
Saginaw residents raise money for memorial to murdered girl
October 20, 2013

SAGINAW — A little girl's murder shocked and saddened this Tarrant County community. Now, Saginaw residents are coming together, hoping to raise money to build a memorial honoring six-year-old Alanna Gallagher.
On Sunday afternoon, there was a fundraising drive at Willow Creek Park.
 
It's just down the street from Willow Creek Elementary, where Alanna went to school and where an outside memorial should soon be built.
The project could cost upwards of $25,000, so moms in the community are gathering to try and get as much money as possible. Around $3,000 has been raised through donations. Other money has been pledged.
 
The memorial was designed by a former Saginaw police office and his brothers from the Law Enforcement Specialists Motorcycle Club.
Ground could break on construction within the next couple of months.
Video at link.

[MuffyBee]

http://www.wfaa.com/news/Volunteers-break-ground-on-memorial-for-slain-Saginaw-6-year-old-230928681.html
Volunteers break ground on memorial for slain Saginaw 6-year-old
November 6, 2013

SAGINAW –– When school finished for the day at Willow Creek Elementary, a group of men in motorcycle jackets got to work.
They set up in the courtyard on the west side of the school and started shoveling soil, barrel by barrel. They were breaking ground on a project that they hope will heal the hearts that broke when 6-year-old Alanna Gallagher, who attended school here, was found dead. 
 
The learning center memorial being built in Alanna's honor by the Specialists Motorcycle Club will include a gazebo and a stone engraved with phrases from the her favorite books. The project also includes a special feature that, when the sun hits it, it will cast a shadow of a little girl with a net chasing butterflies.
“We have dreams that we chase,” said David Carter, the project’s architect. “I think for Alanna, she never had that opportunity to go on with her dreams. Here spiritually, she will be chasing her dreams.”
Alanna's classroom will be feet away from the memorial. Her brother's is, too. The project scheduled to be completed this Thanksgiving is a gift for the entire family.
 

Video at Link

[Green Eyes]

http://www.wfaa.com/news/Volunteers-break-ground-on-memorial-for-slain-Saginaw-6-year-old-230928681.html
Volunteers break ground on memorial for slain Saginaw 6-year-old
November 6, 2013

SAGINAW –– When school finished for the day at Willow Creek Elementary, a group of men in motorcycle jackets got to work.
They set up in the courtyard on the west side of the school and started shoveling soil, barrel by barrel. They were breaking ground on a project that they hope will heal the hearts that broke when 6-year-old Alanna Gallagher, who attended school here, was found dead. 
 
The learning center memorial being built in Alanna's honor by the Specialists Motorcycle Club will include a gazebo and a stone engraved with phrases from the her favorite books. The project also includes a special feature that, when the sun hits it, it will cast a shadow of a little girl with a net chasing butterflies.
“We have dreams that we chase,” said David Carter, the project’s architect. “I think for Alanna, she never had that opportunity to go on with her dreams. Here spiritually, she will be chasing her dreams.”
Alanna's classroom will be feet away from the memorial. Her brother's is, too. The project scheduled to be completed this Thanksgiving is a gift for the entire family.
 

Video at Link

Thanks for up dating us Muffy   How wonderful they are doing something to honor Alanna

[Amys Sister]

That sounds like it will be the most precious memorial to ever be created.  I hope they release photos when it's done.   

[Nut44x4]

Me 2

[cw618]

Outdoor learning center to serve as memorial for slain Saginaw girl
By Matt Peterson
mpeterson@dallasnews.com
8:00 am on November 16, 2013
 
Staff writer Staci Parks reports:
 
An outdoor learning center will be built in memory of a 6-year-old Saginaw girl who was raped and slain near her home in July.
 
A local chapter of Specialists Motorcycle Club raised funds to build the memorial, and the group broke ground last week on the west side of Willow Creek Elementary School, where Alanna was a student.
 
The memorial will include a gazebo featuring an engraving from one of Alanna’s favorite Dr. Seuss books. There will also be a cutout silhouette of a girl with a butterfly net in her hand, said Specialists Motorcycle Club president David Carter.
 
“This way it becomes a living memorial to Alanna,” he said.
vid @ link
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2013/11/outdoor-learning-center-to-serve-as-memorial-for-slain-saginaw-girl.html/

memorial drawing

[MuffyBee]

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/tarrant/Memorial-for-murdered-Saginaw-6-year-old-nears-completion-240968921.html
Memorial for murdered Saginaw 6-year-old nears completion
January 17, 2013


Credit: WFAA
The 6-year-old girl from Saginaw who was murdered last summer is being remembered with a granite and gazebo tribute outside her school. Friday, a special stone was set in place, marking a milestone for volunteers.

 
Alanna was murdered last summer. The 6-year-old's death broke her community's collective heart.

"We didn't really know her, but we know how it feels," explained sixth grader Cole Loar about why he was helping out on the building process. His father is in the motorcycle club.

And Friday, that club hit a milestone.

It took seven grown men to carry a 1,000-pound memorial stone that sits in the very center of a gazebo. They carefully lifted it from a truck and walked it into place, taking great care to ease it to the ground. It is truly the centerpiece of a stunning memorial to Alanna, just outside her classroom at Willow Creek Elementary in Saginaw.

"Brings to light we're close to having it turned over fully and having it ready to hand over to the Gallagher family," said David Carter, of the motorcycle club. Carter designed the memorial. "Milestone day for us, for sure."

The memorial faces west for a number of reasons, Carter said. The metal gazebo will have a special feature, so when the sun hits a certain way, an image of a little girl chasing butterflies will appear on the memorial stone. There is a pathway leading to it with an "A" and a "G" spelled out in flowers. The stone is round. Granite steps surround the back half of it.

"It's kind of the circle of life," Carter said. "Children can climb on it and enjoy it. They can let loose."

Carter said members of the Specialists Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club all have some tie to protecting and saving lives.

"Everybody pitches in and pulls their weight, and makes it a great group of men," he said.

Several are daddies with daughters.

"You start looking at your girls and 'Man, that could've been my daughter at any time -- this [could have] happened," said Mark Enriquez, a father of five girls.

Carter said Alanna's family chose the inscription on the stone. It is a powerful quote from Dr. Seuss that reads, "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

An official dedication of the memorial is expected in March.

[Green Eyes]

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/26450009/child-murder-suspect-pleads-guilty-will-serve-at-least-50-years

Child murder suspect pleads guilty, will serve at least 50 years.

A North Texas teenager has pleaded guilty to multiple charges connected to the murder of a 6-year-old Saginaw girl.

According to court records, Tyler Holder agreed to life in prison for killing Alanna Gallagher and 40 years for shooting an officer who served an arrest warrant at his house.

He also pleaded guilty to arson for setting a car on fire in front of the Gallagher house.

It's not long enough as far as I am concerned

[MuffyBee]

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/26450009/child-murder-suspect-pleads-guilty-will-serve-at-least-50-years

Child murder suspect pleads guilty, will serve at least 50 years.

A North Texas teenager has pleaded guilty to multiple charges connected to the murder of a 6-year-old Saginaw girl.

According to court records, Tyler Holder agreed to life in prison for killing Alanna Gallagher and 40 years for shooting an officer who served an arrest warrant at his house.

He also pleaded guilty to arson for setting a car on fire in front of the Gallagher house.

It's not long enough as far as I am concerned

A life sentence should be exactly that:  life!  As in the rest of his life.  Not fifty years.  As many years as it takes, until death.  JMHO

[Green Eyes]

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/26450009/child-murder-suspect-pleads-guilty-will-serve-at-least-50-years

Child murder suspect pleads guilty, will serve at least 50 years.

A North Texas teenager has pleaded guilty to multiple charges connected to the murder of a 6-year-old Saginaw girl.

According to court records, Tyler Holder agreed to life in prison for killing Alanna Gallagher and 40 years for shooting an officer who served an arrest warrant at his house.

He also pleaded guilty to arson for setting a car on fire in front of the Gallagher house.

It's not long enough as far as I am concerned

A life sentence should be exactly that:  life!  As in the rest of his life.  Not fifty years.  As many years as it takes, until death.  JMHO

 Exactly !!!!!