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| Stephon Lindsay |
A February trial date has been set for a Gadsden man accused
of using a sword or a knife to kill his 20-month-old daughter. Stephon Lindsay
is charged with capital murder of a child under 14 for the March 2013 slaying
of Maliyah Lindsay.
Trial date has been
set for Feb. 22, pushed back from January, before Etowah County Circuit Judge
Billy Ogletree. The child’s body was found March 12, 2013, in a makeshift
dumping ground near the intersection of Plainview Street and Block Avenue. The
little girl had been reported missing a day earlier by her mother, Tasmine
Thomas. Family members last saw the girl alive on March 5. Thomas told police
Lindsay said he took Maliyah to his sister’s house about a week before she was
found dead.
When Thomas called Lindsay’s
sister to pick up the child, the sister said she had not seen her brother or
Maliyah for weeks. Thomas tried to call Lindsay, then called police when he did
not answer her calls. Police went looking for Lindsay and, after they found
him, information they received led them to the wooded area off Plainview Avenue
where the child’s body was found.
A gag order was imposed on the prosecution, the defense, law
enforcement personnel and witnesses in the case.
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