MEMPHIS, TN – A man accused of beating and raping his wife while four children were inside the home is being held on a $5 million cash bond.
Marcelino Navarro-Caldren appeared before a judge, Friday, September 4, 2009, for the first time since the crime. During the hearing, Eyewitness News learned that Navarro-Caldren was on parole for drug charges in California.
A public defender was appointed to the case and Navarro-Caldern waived the preliminary hearing.
Bartlett police were called to a house in the 6300 block of Fairway Heights Cove, Sunday, August 31, 2009, around 11:00 p.m., about a domestic disturbance. When officers arrived at the home, they looked into the garage window and saw movement inside of a car, according to a police affidavit. It turned out that there were four children, all under the age of six, inside the vehicle. Officers asked the children let them in at the back door of the house.
The affidavit states that the children told officers that their father shot their mommy and wanted to know if their mommy was going to die. Officers found the woman in a bedroom covered in blood. Police say in the document, there was blood on the bed, walls and floor. The police document went on to say the victim’s hands and ankles had been tied with rope and that she was lying face down on the floor. Bartlett officers could not tell if she had been shot, because of the amount of blood on her head.
Police say when they found Navarro-Caldern he was wearing bloody clothing and told officers, “I shot at my wife, but I did not hit her.”
According to the police affidavit, Navarro-Caldern is a convicted felon and is not a legal resident of the United States.
He has been charged with Attempted First Degree Murder, Especially Aggravated Kidnapping, Especially Aggravated Rape and Unlawful Possession of a Weapon.
The case is set to go before a Shelby County Grand Jury.
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