Documents reveal violent past with crime-spree suspect

ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. — The Cabarrus County man accused in a cross-state crime spree had a history a domestic violence, according to court documents obtained by Eyewitness News on Monday.

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Montannez Moody shot two people, killing one and injuring another at a Richfield home Saturday, deputies said. Police said he then kidnapped a couple and raped the woman before he was found dead in a swamp in Edgecombe County of a suspected overdose.
 
Police said Moody initially went to the home looking for his estranged wife Julia Moody.

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Julia filed a motion for a domestic violence order of protection against Montannez Moody on Aug. 28.
 
Julia Moody said problems flared up immediately after the birth of their premature twins on Aug. 21. According to court records, Julia went to stay with her parents. However, Julia Moody wrote Montannez Moody "stole my car seat and took [redacted], one of my twins. They are four pounds and should be nursing every two hours."
 
In the motion, Julia Moody also cites past incidents where she felt endangered, writing that she was shot in the head in November 2013 without specifically mentioning Montannez Moody as the shooter.
 
She also writes that two months later "he held me at knife point because I called my mother."
 
The couple was scheduled to be in court for a hearing on the motion Monday.
 
"I wish we would've been in court with them all day instead of dealing with what we're dealing with today," said Rowan County Sheriff Kevin Auten.
 
Eyewitness News also found reports of problems with substances in the court records. Julia Moody states that Montannez Moody once showed up at her work "intoxicated checking phones and closets in search of some mystery man or woman."

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