‘There is a constant danger’: CPS story reveals department’s concern over custody of North Texas mother’s children before fatal stabbings.

ELLIS COUNTY, Texas. New information has emerged about what happened in the months before the deaths of three children stabbed and two other children stabbed in Italy in Ellis County.

It happened on March 3, 2023 in the afternoon.

CPS social workers feared that this could happen and tried to prevent the tragedy.

In court documents reviewed by the WFAA, on July 1, 2022, CPS filed a motion to terminate Shamaya Hall’s parental rights, stating that “there is a continuing threat to the physical health or safety of the children if they are returned to the parent.”

CPS involvement began days earlier on June 30, when police were called to Hall’s home in Forney, Texas.

According to police, Hall’s 5-year-old son went to the neighbors and “…stated that their mother Shamaya was dead on the floor.”

Police said the children were hysterical and Hall was unresponsive “…under the influence of some form of drug, intoxicated and… disoriented and delusional.”

After the rescuers brought her to her senses, they said: “… She was incoherent and muttering.”

Police said the house was dirty and littered with dirty diapers.

The police said: “Shamaya did not know the year or where she was. Shamaya did not answer the questions asked, but as if she was answering questions from a person who does not exist, and Shamaya cannot take care of herself and cannot provide information about her children, and there are no relatives who could take the children.”

She was taken to the hospital; the children were taken to their grandmother’s house in Grande Prairie and the CPS was called.

When CPS interviewed the grandmother, she told them, “Shamaya’s sister Troishai stabbed her 7-year-old daughter to death in Dallas in 2020 during a mental health crisis.”

The WFAA covered the child’s death. The grandmother told CPS that she “… now fears for Shamaiya’s children.”

She told CPS that Shamaya “…also suffered from mental disorders and can be irrational.”

In July, the CPS launched petitions in Kaufman County to permanently take the children away, citing Hall’s drinking problems. CPS stated, “…the Department is concerned that Ms Hall’s untreated and untreated mental health issues are putting children at risk that could result in serious injury or possible death when she becomes a threat to herself and others” .

When Hall was released from the hospital on July 1, 2022, she called CPS and, according to the records, “… kept asking about her kids and said all she did was get drunk.”

But the SPS did not return them. They were visiting relatives.

CPS ordered Hall and the children’s fathers to have limited contact with the children and only visit them at the CPS facility.

But that did not happen.

Police said Hall was alone with her children on the day she allegedly stabbed them.

Documents show that CPS has been trying to find a permanent home for the children, and a final hearing has been set for July of this year to sever parental rights for Hall and the children’s fathers. But the kids never got there.