Montgomery indicted for capital murder
As former TCU football player was indicted Friday on charges of capital murder for the death of his 16-month-old daughter. Montgomery is currently free on $100,000 bail. It is unknown whether prosecutors will seek the death penalty.
By Jill Meninger
Staff Reporter

Former TCU football player Frank Montgomery was indicted Friday on charges of capital murder, said Tarrant County District Attorney Dennis Timmons.

Montgomery, 22, is accused of striking 16-month-old Savannah Koiner on the head with an unknown object while she was under his care July 2, he said.

Timmons said the Benbrook Police Department arrested Montgomery on July 24 for injuring a child.

He said the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s office concluded the child’s death was a homicide inflicted by blunt force trauma to her head.

Timmons said the district attorney’s office has not decided if it will seek the death penalty. Montgomery is free on a $100,000 bond, Timmons said.

Sandy Eubanks, Benbrook police commander of field operations, said Montgomery was living with his girlfriend Roxane Koiner. Eubanks said Montgomery called the police on the evening of July 2 and told the dispatchers the child was not breathing.

Eubanks said Montgomery gave several statements to investigators and changed the details of how the child got injured each time.

Montgomery told investigators in one statement that the child had hit her head on the kitchen sink or counter, which he had failed to mention in previous interviews, Eubanks said.

Eubanks said a burn mark was found on the child’s back at Cook’s Children Medical Center. He said the story from Montgomery of how the burn mark got on the child was not consistent with the size and location of the burn mark. Eubanks said the burn mark had happened a couple of days before the child died.

Montgomery was suspended from the university July 23.