The mother a 14-year-old girl in Arkansas faces a capital murder case after state investigators found the teen was the victim of a homicide by compressional asphyxiation.
Shelette Strong is accused of inflicting homicidal violence against daughter Ciana Roberts in a Tucker residence on Feb. 27, leading to the girl’s death four days later.
After Ciana Roberts was pronounced dead by the Pulaski County Coroner’s Office on the first day of March, the Arkansas State Crime Lab performed an autopsy which led to the Aug. 15 murder charge against the 30-year-old mother.
An obituary for Ciana Roberts said she left “[l]oving memories” to her parents, Christopher Roberts and Shelette Strong. Ciana is also survived by seven siblings.
