East Texas woman sentenced to death for murdering woman, cutting baby from womb
Published 3:47 pm Wednesday, November 9, 2022
BOWIE COUNTY — An East Texas woman has been sentenced to death by a Bowie County jury.
According to KTBS, after just 90 minutes of deliberation, a jury handed down the punishment for Taylor Parker.
Parker, 29, was convicted of murdering Reagan Simmons-Hancock, 22, on Oct. 9, 2020. Simmons-Hancock was seven-and-a-half months pregnant when she was attacked at a home in the 200 block of Austin St. in New Boston. Parker also cut the unborn baby from Simmons-Hancock’s womb. The baby did not survive.
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was taken into custody the same day in Idabel, OK, in connection with the crime.