Court documents detail money trouble, past crimes of Quatavia Givens
Quatavia Givens, the woman accused of hitting and killing 4-year-old Darnell Gray, was a year into her probation term at the time of her arrest.
The details come in court documents obtained by ABC 17 News. Those documents include police records, lawsuits and a protection order from an ex-boyfriend.
Jefferson City police arrested Givens on Wednesday for child abuse that allegedly killed Gray. Police say they found Gray’s body in the woods in the 2100 block of Louis Circle with blunt and sharp force trauma to his body in multiple locations. According to a probable cause statement, Givens told police she “may have hit him wrong.”
Givens admitted in September 2017 to not paying for a bedroom set she leased from Rent-A-Center. A probable cause statement from February of that year said she rented the bedroom set on Nov. 1, 2016, but had not made a payment on it in the months since. A judge sentenced her to two years of unsupervised probation and ordered her to pay $580 in court costs and restitution.
Court records show Givens’ wages were being garnished as recently as last week. Documents in a lawsuit from Midwest Acceptance Corporation show it was garnishing her wages from First Student, a school bus operation company, on Oct. 25. The lawsuit, filed one day before the Jefferson City Police Department wrote its probable cause statement over the stolen bedroom set in 2017, claimed Givens had not made payments on a Jeep Compass she bought in February 2016. Givens had an unpaid balance of more than $9,000 on the judgment against her in that case.
Court records show Givens living in the apartment on Buena Vista Street, where Gray went missing from, as early as August 2016. An eviction notice dated June 27, 2016, ordered Givens to leave an apartment on South Brooks Drive. Court records involved in her divorce proceedings shortly after that date begin listing Givens’ address as the location on Buena Vista Street.
