Father 'asked pregnant daughter, 16, and her boyfriend to shoot dead his ex-girlfriend'

Publish date: 2024-05-02

By Paul Thompson for MailOnline

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A father has been accused of getting his pregnant daughter to help kill his ex-girlfriend.

Anthony Miller is alleged to have asked the 16-year-old and her boyfriend, 18, to carry out the doorstep killing of Barbara Giles.

The mother-of-four was shot dead after she answered the door to her home in Shelton, Washington.

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Ex-boyfriend: Anthony Miller is alleged to have asked his pregnant teenage daughter and her boyfriend to carry out the doorstep killing of Barbara Giles

Ex-boyfriend: Anthony Miller is alleged to have asked his pregnant teenage daughter and her boyfriend to carry out the doorstep killing of Barbara Giles

Target: Mother-of-four Barbara Giles was shot multiple times on her doorstep and though she was alive when paramedics arrived she later died in hospital

Target: Mother-of-four Barbara Giles was shot multiple times on her doorstep and though she was alive when paramedics arrived she later died in hospital

Police said Miller's 16-year-old daughter Asaria, who is four months pregnant, and her teen boyfriend carried out the killing.

Miller, 37, is also alleged to have supplied the murder weapon. He wanted his ex-girlfriend dead because of a custody dispute over their child.

The teens knocked on Giles' door and shot her multiple times when she answered.

James Hartfield, Asaria's boyfriend, is alleged to have fired the gun.

Giles, who has four children under the age of ten was still alive when reached by paramedics despite being shot multiple times.

She later died in hospital.

James Hartfield, 18 Asaria Miller

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Scene: The couple burst into Barbara's Sheldon home and shot her dead on her doorstep

Scene: The couple burst into Barbara's Sheldon home and shot her dead on her doorstep

Two witnesses inside of the house barricaded themselves in the rear of the house and were not injured.

Police said Miller wanted Giles dead following his split with her and an ongoing custody dispute.

Mason County Chief Deputy Dean Byrd said they were able to arrest all three people after discovering text messages between Miller and his daughter.

'This is a really horrific case. Our victim here is a mother of four children,' Byrd said.

Justice: Relatives of Barbara were in the courtroom to hear the fate of the three who are accused of killing their loved one and leaving her four children motherless

Justice: Relatives of Barbara were in the courtroom to hear the fate of the three who are accused of killing their loved one and leaving her four children motherless

Byrd said Giles had sent his daughter coded text messages as they plotted the killing in November.

'There was some fairly detailed planning about where it was going to happen, when it was going to happen, how it was going to happen,' said Mason County Prosecutor Mike Dorcy.

Giles' death has stunned her family.

'Barbie had four beautiful children. He took their mother away so early for no reason at all,' family member Marcus Kennedy told Komo News.


 

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