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Texas mom charged with double-homicide, aggravated injury after shooting her four kids, killing two – years after appearing on Paternity Court TV show in failed effort to establish paternity of her first child

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-49ec664972916f7d8b63e47441223f98" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;220202&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><br><strong>Oninda Romelus&comma; 31&comma; allegedly killed her son&comma; 13&comma; and daughter&comma; three&comma; inside a vehicle on Saturday in Brazoria County&comma; Texas <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-93c0c5589b0c88c22051debffb181fab" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;220202&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Romelus deputies said&comma; shot dead two of her kids a decade after she appeared on Paternity Court TV to determine the identity of her son&&num;8217&semi;s father<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ed9f2162e27b56aa80684a0247762b4b" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;220202&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>She also injured her eight-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter who are in stable condition after being airlifted to a hospital <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a955877d1aed34d4ba658cf5b38ac73f" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;220202&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Tragedy happened a decade after Romelus appeared as a teen mom on Paternity Court TV in 2013 seeking help determining the paternity of one of her first son <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d1d639cb510cdff2ff8084fc045f6366" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;220202&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Romelus admitted to cheating on her fiancé of four years&comma; DeWayne Seymore&comma; and thus did not know which of the two men was her child&&num;8217&semi;s father<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f51c582f3f90fba8005cae9d1e2fa82e" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;220202&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>DNA tests however&comma; proved that neither of the two men was the child&&num;8217&semi;s father <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8157b0a95fd50074ce6219c290756053" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;220202&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong> Romelus who was charged with two counts of murder and two counts of aggravated assault&comma; is being held on a &dollar;14 million bond&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;Oninda-Romelus-4&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-486994" style&equals;"width&colon;811px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Oninda Romelus&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; who works<strong> as a tax agent&period;<&sol;strong> allegedly killed her son&comma; 13&comma; and 3-year-old daughter&comma; inside a vehicle in the Brazoria County&comma; Texas&comma; on Saturday October 4&period; She&&num;8217&semi;s charged with two counts of murder and two counts of aggravated assault<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A mother from home in Montgomery County&comma; Texas has been accused of shooting dead two of her kids a decade after she appeared on Paternity Court TV to establish the paternity of her child&period;<br>Oninda Romelus&comma; allegedly killed her son&comma; 13&comma; and daughter&comma; three&comma; inside a vehicle on Saturday in the Houston area&period;<br>She also injured her eight-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter who are in stable condition after being airlifted to a Houston hospital&comma; with severe injuries&comma; but reportedly <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;11alive&period;com&sol;article&sol;news&sol;nation-world&sol;oninda-romelus-angleton-texas-mother-shooting-children-killed&sol;285-43c04f2d-cb3f-43dd-bd73-3f8ae08736e1" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">stable<&sol;a>&period; <br>Police said Romelus called 911 at 4&period;30am requesting help at the Shell gas station in Angleton&period; <br>When officers arrived at the scene&comma; they found the four children shot inside an Audi sedan&comma; according to Brazoria County Sheriff Bo Stallman&period;<br>The Audi is registered the suspect&comma; identified as the children&&num;8217&semi;s mother&comma; 31-year-old Oninda Romelus&period; The Haitian born tax agent who recently relocated to Montgomery County&comma; Texas from Georgia with her children&comma; had driven to the gas station&comma; parked her car and dialed police to report the incident&period;<br>Investigators said they believe the children were shot inside the car at another unknown location before Romelus drove to the gas station&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;Houston-police-on-Saturday-found-the-four-children-shot-inside-Oninda-Romelus-Audi-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-486971" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Brazoria County law enforcement on Saturday converged on the scene after four children shot inside an Audi sedan&period; The vehicle is registered to the the children&&num;8217&semi;s mother Oninda Romelus<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Romelus was charged with two counts of murder and two counts of aggravated assault&period;<br>According to court documents&comma; she told Brazoria County investigators that her children were &&num;8220&semi;with the devil&period;&&num;8221&semi; <br>When asked why she called 911&comma; she stated&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Instead of them doing it to me&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m gonna do it to them&comma;&&num;8221&semi; according to court documents&period; <br>When asked what she meant by &&num;8220&semi;do it to them&comma; Romelus replied&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;kill them all&period;&&num;8221&semi; <br>She&&num;8217&semi; being held on a &dollar;14million bond&period; A court will decide who will have temporary custody of the surviving children once they are released from the hospital&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;Oninda-Romelus-3&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-486969" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>In 2013 Oninda Romelus sought help from the TV show&comma; Paternity Court&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; to her determine her then boyfriend Dewayne Seymore or another man was the father of her infant so&comma; O&&num;8217&semi;Karreo<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The tragedy came a decade after Romelus appeared as a teen mom on Paternity Court TV in 2013 seeking help determining the paternity of one of her children&period;<br>Romelus claimed she had cheated on her fiancé of four years&comma; DeWayne Seymore&comma; and thus did not know which of the two men was her child&&num;8217&semi;s father&period; It later emerged that neither of the two men was the father of the teenager&&num;8217&semi;s son&period;<br>The infant whose paternity was in doubt twelve years ago is a male child named O&&num;8217&semi;Karreo &&num;8211&semi; same age as the oldest child shot dead allegedly&comma; by Romulus&period;<br> &&num;8216&semi;I cheated him basically out of spite&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Romelus explained after claiming Seymore had been first to cheat on her&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;Dewayne-Seymore-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-486972" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>A DNA test determined that neither Shawn Dewayne Seymore&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; now a convicted gang member&comma; nor the other man&comma; Jeremy Covington&comma; were O&&num;8217&semi;Karrio&&num;8217&semi;s father<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Paternity Court ordered DNA tests determined that neither Seymore nor Jeremy Covington&comma; the other man&comma; were O&&num;8217&semi;Karreo&&num;8217&semi;s father&period; <br>One of the potential dads&comma; her then boyfriend&comma; Shane Dwayne Seymore&comma; would be <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;11alive&period;com&sol;article&sol;news&sol;local&sol;covington&sol;gang-members-kidnap-prosecutors-father-get-hefty-sentences&sol;85-446617325">convicted in 2017<&sol;a>&comma; as one of the members of the United Blood Nation gang who kidnapped Frank Janssen&comma; the father of a North Carolina state prosecutor who was involved in the successful prosecution of one of the gang&&num;8217&semi;s founders&comma; Kelvin Melton&comma; who orchestrated the kidnap to force a dismissal of his case&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;Oninda-Romelus-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-486967" style&equals;"width&colon;810px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Haitian born Oninda Romelus &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; a single <strong>mother-of-four<&sol;strong>&comma; had recently moved to Texas from Georgia with her four children&comma; she has just been accused of shooting <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>According to the charging documents&comma; when deputies responded to that gas station off of State Highway 288 on Saturday&comma; they found Romelus&&num;8217&semi; car running with all doors open and some of the children&&num;8217&semi;s bodies covered in a white sheet&period;<br>The officers found a 13-year-old boy slumped over in the passenger seat with gunshot wounds and three younger children in the backseat&period; <br>All the children had been shot&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;Oninda-Romelus-home-in-Houston-Texas-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-486974" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Since she moved to Montgomery County a few months ago&comma; Romelus has lived in this home &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; with her children&period; <strong>She has been accused of shooting her children killing two&comma;her oldest son&comma; 13&comma; and daughter&comma; three&period;<&sol;strong> Her nine-year-old daughter&comma; and son&comma; eight&comma; <strong>survived their injuries<&sol;strong> <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>James Chappell the grandfather Amari Chappell&comma; the three-year-old girl who was shot dead&comma; as well the injured eight-year-old boy&comma; revealed that his son&comma; their father of the two kids is currently incarcerated&period; <br>Chappell added that he &&num;8216&semi;didn’t see anything wrong with &lbrack;Romelus&&num;8217&semi;&rsqb; personality before the alleged shooting&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;She seemed like a beautiful person&comma;&&num;8217&semi; said Chappell&period; &&num;8216&semi;She had a wonderful job and everything&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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