Elisha Anderson

Detroit Free Press

A Dearborn Heights man tearfully admitted to killing his two daughters and two stepchildren during a court hearing today and pleaded guilty to four counts of second-degree murder.

A sentence agreement in the case requires Gregory Green to serve 47 to 102 years in prison for the crimes he committed. He is 50 years old now, so his first shot at parole will be when he is 97.

Green told 20th District Judge David Turfe that he was responsible for the deaths of Chadney Allen, 19, Kara Allen, 17, Koi Green, 5 and Kaleigh Green, 4.

He said he repeatedly shot his two stepchildren in front of their mother and killed his two daughters by carbon monoxide poisoning.

“I left my … two girls in the car,” he said.

Green referred to the children’s mother as his ex-wife and said he shot her in the foot and cut her face with a sharp object.

Green is scheduled to be sentenced in Wayne County Circuit Court March 1.

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"The plea was given with the express approval of Faith Green, the mother of the children, and the father of the two Allen children," the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office said in a news release.

Faith Green was in court today but didn’t talk to reporters leaving the courthouse.

Green's attorney, Charles Longstreet II, said his client is remorseful for his actions.

“He wanted to get it over with,” Longstreet said of Green’s decision to accept the plea.

In addition to pleading guilty to four counts of second-degree murder, Green pleaded guilty to a count of torture, assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder and felony firearm in connection with the events that took place at the family's Dearborn Heights home in the 4400 block of Hipp last year.

Green was initially charged with four counts of first-degree murder, which requires life in prison without the possibility of parole upon conviction. Three other counts will be dismissed as part of the plea agreement.

Before Green agreed to plead guilty, he underwent an evaluation by a doctor from the Center for Forensic Psychiatry and was found competent to stand trial, attorneys said.

The killings happened 25 years after Green murdered his then-wife Tonya Green, who was seven months pregnant. Court records show Green stabbed her 10 times with a steak knife, killing her and her unborn child.

He pleaded no contest to second-degree murder in that case, served 16 years in prison and was paroled in 2008.

Faith Green filed for divorce three times during their marriage: in 2013, 2014 and 2016. The last request was filed about a month before the killings. Online court records show that divorce case was closed in December.

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