{"id":5740,"date":"2013-05-31T21:03:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T01:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=5740"},"modified":"2013-05-31T21:03:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T01:03:36","slug":"e-fallowfield-man-held-for-trial-on-murder-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=5740","title":{"rendered":"E. Fallowfield man held for trial on murder charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Judge found sufficient evidence to advance case against Gregory A. Twyman<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Police said Jamica M. Woods, 37, was fatally shot by Gregory A. Twyman, 44, inside the East Fallowfield Township home they shared.<\/p><\/div>\n

An East Fallowfield Township man accused of fatally shooting his longtime girlfriend on May 21 was held for trial Friday on all charges, including first-degree murder and illegal firearms possession, at his preliminary hearing.<\/p>\n

Magisterial District Judge Nancy A. Gill found sufficient evidence to advance the case against\u00a0Gregory A. Twyman, 44, to county court. Police said Twyman called 9-1-1 after killing Jamica M. Woods, 37, the mother of their 18-year-old daughter, telling the dispatcher: \u201cI need the police: I just shot my girlfriend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deputy District Attorney Michelle Frei, who presented two law-enforcement witnesses, said when East Fallowfield officers arrived to take Twyman into custody, he was on the porch of the couple\u2019s residence on Rokeby Road smoking a cigarette.\u00a0Twyman told police that he and Woods \u201chad been fighting for days and that he had bought the shotgun shells last week at Walmart,\u201d the criminal complaint said.<\/p>\n

The day before the murder, Twyman changed his Facebook profile picture to a shotgun shell, with a shotgun as the background.\u00a0 In response to a comment from a friend who threatened to contact “ATF,” the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Twyman stated that it was \u201cgon be too late\u201d if law enforcement tried to intervene, and \u201cOnce i handle my business, i don\u2019t give a [expletive]!\u201d<\/p>\n

Twyman, who has an extensive criminal history, was awaiting trial next month on drug charges, court records said. Records also show that Woods sought a Protection-from-Abuse\u00a0 (PFA) petition three times, most recently in December; however, no PFA was active on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In the Dec. 20 petition, which was filed temporarily in district court and never finalized in county court, Woods cited a \u201clong history of court proceedings\u201d involving the two of them. \u00a0She wrote that he had called about 10:30 p.m. on Dec. 20 and learned that she had sought a PFA and that\u00a0 \u201che would go to jail\u201d if he approached her. \u201cHe said if I go to jail, wait to see where you go,\u201d the petition said, adding that she believed he would \u201ccause physical harm or even kill\u201d her.<\/p>\n

Woods, who was studying computer information systems at Harrisburg Community College, graduated with honors from Coatesville Area Senior High in 1994, according to her obituary. She was a member of Strong Faith Family Church in Wagontown, which is collecting donations for her family\u2019s funeral expenses. For more information, visit www.strongfaithchurch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gill set a formal arraignment date of June 20, and Twyman, who is being represented by Assistant Public Defender James A. McMullen, was returned to Chester County Prison.<\/p>\n

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Judge found sufficient evidence to advance case against Gregory A. Twyman An East Fallowfield Township man accused of fatally shooting his longtime girlfriend on May 21 was held for trial Friday on all charges, including first-degree murder and illegal firearms possession, at his preliminary hearing. Magisterial District Judge Nancy A. Gill found sufficient evidence to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[493,2170,2243],"class_list":["post-5740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-east-fallowfield-township","tag-gregory-a-twyman","tag-magisterial-district-judge-nancy-a-gill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}