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Ramsire hearing set for this week

Avi Selk / Dallas Morning News

Another court hearing is set this week for a Greenville man charged with allegedly sexually assaulting a local teenager who later was found murdered.
The attorney for Terry Dwayne Ramsire is seeking to suppress statements Ramsire allegedly made to law enforcement officials last year, due to questions over Ramsire’s mental competency.

Last month, 354th District Court Judge Richard A. Beacom ordered a mental examination for the defendant and set another hearing for Thursday.

Ramsire, 49, received two indictments from the Hunt County grand jury in September 2012; one for aggravated sexual assault of a child and another for indecency with a child by sexual contact, alleging he sexually assaulted Alicia Chanta Moore on multiple occasions during July 2012. Ramsire has pleaded not guilty.

Ramsire was arrested on the charges on August 23 and has remained in custody at the Hunt County Jail since that time in lieu of a total of $70,000 bond.

Defense attorney Carol Day Gustin argued the statements Ramsire made to an investigator with the Greenville Police Department following his arrest should be suppressed as evidence.

“Specifically, Terry Ramsire has limited intelligence, a mental defect and/or mental illness that was significant enough to prevent him from understanding his warnings and his rights, thus rendering his confession inadmissible,” Gustin said.

Moore, 16, was last seen on the afternoon of Nov. 2 getting off of a school bus at the intersection of Bourland and Walnut Streets in Greenville, a short distance from her home.

Her body was found  four days later along FM 47 in Van Zandt County and the Greenville Police Department has joined with multiple other agencies in conducting a homicide investigation in the case.