An Arizona high school football player accused of beating a teenage boy to death at a Halloween party last year allegedly bragged that the attack was covered up by his family and that the boy’s funeral was private.
Taran Renner, 17, and six other suspected attackers were held on $1 million bail and have pleaded not guilty to the murder of 16-year-old Preston Road.
Queen Creek police have released new information about how, in the days after Lord’s death, he was transported by his father, Travis Renner, to the family’s $850,000 cabin in Show Low, three hours away from their home. The details were revealed, according to documents reviewed by Lord. AZ family.
The allegations were allegedly made to police by the father’s ex-girlfriend, who broke up with Travis Renner before the gruesome murder but is still close to the family and had access to his credit card history. He is said to have said that. Page report.
While Renner was hiding in a cabin about three hours from her home, she sent messages to Renner, who she describes as a “militant” and “angry kid,” on Snapchat, where she said, “Walking with my dog. He claimed to have shared a photo of himself. Gucci. ”
She claims the photo showed the suspected murderer’s jaw swollen.
Later, the father’s former attorney revealed to law enforcement that the Renner family’s attorney allegedly advised him to get his “hand healed” before returning to his hometown of Gilbert.
She told police that Renner “can be quite aggressive” and that “when he gets angry, he gets angry,” she said.
She comes after surveillance footage was released showing Renner bragging about getting away with Lord’s murder and her 16-year-old son’s “closed casket” funeral. He said he decided to report the incident after seeing that his former son had no remorse. The media said it was because he was badly beaten.
said Ashley Reynolds, a former employee of Travis Renner at Relentless Media Agency. arizona republic Last month, Renner’s father, CEO Adam Kiefer, allegedly discussed moving his son to a cabin and shifting the blame to another boy involved in the fatal assault.
A former executive assistant at Relentless claimed that the two men asked her to help with a “crisis” and regularly provided her with updates on the case.
Reynolds, who is also a mother, said she never had an “opportunity” to decide for herself to get involved, and was fired after two months of unwillingness to cooperate with the plan, the paper said.
“I can’t imagine being a mother and losing my son and knowing what happened and not coming forward,” she told the magazine.
Renner and six other alleged bullies who called themselves “Gilbert Goons” attended a Halloween party Oct. 28 at Queen Creek, about 40 minutes east of Phoenix. All were arrested on suspicion of being involved in Lord’s death.
One witness said about 15 suspects wearing ski masks attacked Lord. The boy died in hospital on October 30th from his severe injuries.
The boy allegedly bragged to friends online that he had accidentally “killed” Lorde during a fight, but the incident was linked to another suspect, Dominic Turner, also known as “D-Money.” (20) allegedly stole a chain from Lorde’s friend.
In police documents obtained by AZFamily, a witness told police he received a Snapchat message from Renner after the attack in which he admitted to killing Lord.
According to police, Renner allegedly wrote in a Snapchat message that he was “involved in an argument, large group fight and accidentally killed a child.” “I think I’m just too strong.”
Another suspect in the fatal assault, Taryn Vigil, 17, later confessed to assaulting Lord on Snapchat, authorities said.
“I hit a kid and this kid hit me in the head,” Vigil wrote to a friend, according to the police report. “Then they kicked his head on the ground, and I heard the news that he was indeed dead.”
A friend close to Renner told police that during the attack, “he hit Preston four times in the face with a hammer, then everyone surrounded him and started kicking him.”
A witness told police that “Mr. Preston was face down and someone climbed on top of him and ‘danced on top of him.'”
Another witness was also able to shed more light on what happened during the attack, saying that while Lord was “on the ground, a group of children recorded the person and began ‘beating’ him,” and that Lord was “on the ground.” “They were lying dead in front of everyone,” he told police. ran away. “
