Suspect confesses to killing boy who vanished 7 years ago

(12/17/05 - KTRK/ORCHARD, TX) (KTRK) -- There's new information about a seven year old missing persons case in Fort Bend County. Investigators say Steven Carrington has confessed to killing Corey Brooks, missing since 1998. Carrington is the stepfather of Teketria Buggs, whose body was found earlier this week.

Not only is Carrington under investigation for Brooks' death, investigators are also questioning him about Buggs' death, too.

Corey's mother Caroline Brooks said, "I know I have some closure now, but I don't feel it because I didn't get no body."

Caroline says her son Corey and Steven Carrington were cousins living together in Orchard when Corey disappeared. At first she never suspected Carrington, saying he helped in the desperate search for her son.

She said, "He rode with us in the car to put up flyers for my son. And then I got an anonymous call saying the flyers we were putting up, he was pulling down."

Caroline says she passed that information on to investigators, but no charges were ever brought against Carrington back in 1998.

Corey Brooks was last seen in the Fort Bend County town of Orchard -- as was 12-year-old Teketria Buggs, Carrington's stepdaughter, who was last seen a few weeks ago. On Thursday searchers found her body in the Brazos River. Now detectives say Carrington, a suspect in the young girl's death, has confessed to killing Brooks.

"There was always hope, even if -- what a dream -- that maybe (Corey) would walk up and knock on the door," Caroline said. "But now I know for sure they killed my son."

While Caroline struggles with the reality she will never be able to bury her son, she is grateful Teketria's family will be able to say goodbye.

"It tears me up," she said. "I called her the little angel in my life. Because if it weren't for her this would never have come out. She is always going to be in my heart and I don't even know her. She's an angel in my heart."

It's important to note, Steven Carrington has not been charged in either Brooks' disappearance or in the Buggs' case.
(Copyright © 2005, KTRK-TV)

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