Left: Kara Walker. Right: Nolan Stallings (Harris County Sheriff's Office).
A 19-year-old Texas man is headed to prison for decades for beating his girlfriend's 8-year-old brother to death after torturing him "over several days" and then claiming the boy "fell down a lot."
Nolan Stallings pleaded guilty Monday to injury to a child with serious bodily injury and was sentenced to 40 years behind bars in the death of young Charles Walker, records show. Charles' sister, Kara Walker, is facing the same charge and is set to have a court hearing on Friday.
"The complainant was abused and tortured over several days," police wrote in a motion for sufficient bail. "The injuries that resulted from the abuse caused the complainant's death."
Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez wrote in a post on X that the abuse is believed to have occurred on Feb. 10, 2025, at a home in the 100 block of Greendell Street in Highlands, near Houston, where Stallings lived with his family. Investigators said Walker and Stallings beat the boy with blunt objects.
Authorities responded to a local hospital after the boy arrived with serious injuries that appeared to be from abuse. He died a few days later.
Stallings was arrested on March 4, 2025, while Walker was arrested about six months after her brother's death. Both were 17 at the time of the incident.
Investigators told local CBS affiliate KHOU that Stallings told them the victim "fell down a lot." But the injuries were consistent with abuse, according to cops.
Walker, in a jailhouse interview with local NBC affiliate KPRC, insisted she did nothing to hurt her brother despite evidence on her phone that appeared to suggest otherwise.
"I'm being falsely charged. I wouldn't do anything to harm my brother," she told the TV station.
But she also admitted that cops recovered potentially incriminating notes and text messages on her phone.
"They found a note in my phone that I didn't write [but] because it was in my phone they're saying that I wrote it, and they found text messages about me saying that I had made my brother stand in the corner even though I didn't make him stand in the corner," Walker said.
Her parents are standing by her side. Her mom Christian West said her daughter weighs 100 pounds and it would be impossible for her to inflict such damage.
The injuries were catastrophic.
"They just compared it to a car accident. Seventy to 80 mile an hour car crash with an unrestrained victim," said Cecil Walker, Charles' father.
Charles was known as "little man" in the family.
"He would give you anything," West told the outlet. "He just wanted to see you smile and be happy."
Kara Walker, now 18, remains in the Harris County Jail.
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