A judge has revoked bond for the Hendersonville father accused of fatally shooting his 11-year-old daughter after he failed a drug test while out of jail.
A hearing was held Wednesday morning for Timothy Batts, who allegedly shot and killed his daughter, Timea, on August 8 after she returned home from her first day of 6th grade.
Batts' case will be heard by a grand jury in October. A friend's mom sent me this old snapchat of Timea @NC5 pic.twitter.com/3MW2KPD9Wd
— Alexandra Koehn (@NC5_AKoehn) September 14, 2016
He claimed the incident was an accident. At one point he told officers he thought Timea was an intruder.
He bonded out of jail one month ago after supporters raised $50,000 for his $500,000 bail.
When his bond was revoked, Batts said this is "bull****" in court.
Defense attorney John Pellegrin said, “He was frustrated, he’s always denied that he did anything to cause his bond to be revoked he’s denied using any drugs and his past drug tests repeatedly showed that."
Batts is placed back in handcuffs and lead out of the court room @NC5 pic.twitter.com/qUiBohwFP8
— Alexandra Koehn (@NC5_AKoehn) September 14, 2016
The company that performed the drug test was in court. They said Batts tested positive for cocaine.
Police said the drug test was administered just a couple days after he bonded out.
In addition to the bond hearing, they had the preliminary hearing for Batts as well.
During the hearing, Hendersonville Police officials said they couldn’t locate Batts while Timea was dying at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Neil Harris with the Hendersonville Police Department said they have four video clips from in home surveillance video.
One of them shows Batts walking around his home with a gun while on his cell phone. The second video reportedly shows Timea walking in the door with a backpack, and the third shows her jumping up and down as if she was shot. In the fourth video, police said Batts is seen carrying Timea out the door in his arms.
Harris said, "I was very concerned that there may be some attempt to destroy or delete whatever video there could be of the incident.”
The case would be heard by a grand jury in October.
