Police say they believe Hurst’s entire relationship with Collins, which began in June 2024, was part of an elaborate ruse to get revenge against King
Police are searching for a Texas man who orchestrated an entire relationship with the former girlfriend of the man who killed his brother, just to kill her.
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of 22-year-old Dawayland Hurst for the murder of MaryJayne Collins, 23. Police say the mother-of-two was simply a pawn in a much bigger revenge plot to avenge the murder of Hurst’s half-brother, Diajwan Triplett, ABC13 reported.
A man named Michael King was arrested and convicted Triplett’s July 2020 murder. It turns out that Collins shared two children with King. Police say they believe Hurst’s entire relationship with Collins, which began in June 2024, was part of an elaborate ruse to get revenge against King.
Days before her murder Collins told her friends that Hurst was abusing her and showed them her injuries.
On the morning of Oct. 4, hours before Collins’ body was found, King made a video call from prison. In the video, which was then sent to friends, Hurst can be seen taunting King and slapping his son while Collins is heard crying and telling Hurst to “get away from him.”
The video was shown to King’s mother who asked friends on Facebook to check on Collins. One friend called police and that was when authorities discovered Collins stabbed to death. In a press release, the Seabrook Police Department said they believe Hurst “assaulted one of the victim’s children only minutes before officers arrived.”
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The probable cause affidavit says that a Ring doorbell camera captured Hurst leaving the apartment just before 11 a.m. and taking an “evasive path.” The investigation has led police to believe that Hurst was “motivated to revenge the death of his brother” and “thus, befriended, abused and then murdered the victim who was the mother of Michael King’s children,” the affidavit said.
Collins’ family tells ABC13 they want justice for her and that “Hurst needs to be arrested.”
Anyone with information is asked to call Seabrook police at 281-291-5610.
