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Who is Lee Gilley?
Lee Mongerson Gilley is an American software developer from Houston, Texas, United States. He has lived in different parts of South Carolina, USA including Anderson, Clemson and Fountain Inn and different parts of California, USA including Long Beach and San Diego.
Gilley also previously lived in Naperville, Illinois, USA and Laurel, Maryland, USA. He was 6 months older than his wife Christa Nicole Bauer Gilley.
Christa was from Summerville, South Carolina. She and Lee have two children together.
Lee and Christa met while attending Clemson University in Clemson. Here are 16 more things about him:
- From 2004 to 2008, he attended Clemson University where he earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.
- From January 2009 to January 2010, he was an instrumentation engineer at Chicago Bridge and Iron Company (CB&I) in Beaumont, Texas, USA and Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- From January 2010 to January 2011, he was a field engineer at CB&I in San Diego, in Carson, California and in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA.
- From February 2014 to November 2016, he was a Big Brothers Big Sisters of America mentor.
- In April 2011, he founded Mongoose Coding in San Diego. He was its lead developer until December 2014 and its lead designer until December 2019.
- In July 2015, he joined the University of California, San Diego in San Diego as an advanced Microsoft Excel instructor.
- On January 28, 2017, he and Christa got married at The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Charleston, South Carolina.
- In March 2018, he founded the software consulting company Docmo in Houston.
- In 2020, Christa gave birth to their first child.
- In 2022, Christa gave birth to their second child.
- In August 2024, he turned 38.
- On October 7, 2024, he allegedly fatally strangled Christa, who was 9 weeks pregnant with their third child, in their residence in Houston and called 911 to report that she had tried to kill herself by overdosing.
- On October 11, 2024, he was arrested, booked at the Harris County Jail in Houston and charged with the murders of Christa and their unborn child.
- On October 14, 2024, a judge denied his bond request.
- On October 17, 2024, he appeared in court in Harris County, Texas where his bond was set at $1 million. The conditions of his bond include turning in his passport, having no contact with his family including his children, having no drugs, alcohol and firearms and wearing global positioning system (GPS) monitoring.
- On December 3, 2024, a temporary restraining order was filed against him in a trial court in Harris County. On December 13, 2024, he filed a petition asking the court to compel the Honorable Fransheneka Watson to vacate the order and on December 19, 2024, he filed an unopposed motion to dismiss his mandamus petition.
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