More details emerge in case of ex-cop, girlfriend accused in Roseville girl’s death
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- A Roseville couple returned to court Monday to face murder and torture charges.
- The couple, a former police officer and his girlfriend, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
- They are accused in the death of a 7-year-old girl and abuse on her little sister.
Filed court documents revealed more details about a Placer County murder case against a former police officer and his girlfriend who are accused in the death of a 7-year-old girl found with injuries two weeks ago at their Roseville home.
Retuquel Dupree, 27, and Jessica Savangsy, 26, the accused Roseville couple, returned Monday morning for their arraignment in Placer Superior Court.
Along with the murder charge, Dupree and Savangsy have each been charged with two counts of torture. The victims listed in the torture charges are the 7-year-old who died and her 5-year-old sister, who also was found with injuries at the couple’s home in the 200 block of Oahu Court in west Roseville.
The California Department of Justice recently filed court documents that revealed in what condition and where in the home the sisters were found Dec. 22. The documents also revealed details about what was found in a vehicle in October, when police arrested Dupree and Savangsy in connection with a series of thefts at the Westfield Galleria mall in Roseville.
At Monday morning’s arraignment hearing, defense attorneys for the Roseville couple entered pleas of not guilty on behalf of their clients. Dupree and Savangsy, since their arrests two weeks ago, have remained in custody at the South Placer Jail. The couple remain ineligible for bail as they await prosecution.
The two girls found with injuries at the Roseville home were Savangsy’s daughters. The murder and torture charges stem from incidents that allegedly occurred from June 1 through Dec. 22, when the girls were found injured, according to the filed criminal complaints.
The 7-year-old girl is identified as A.S. in the filed criminal complaint; her little sister is identified as A.S.H.
Injured girls at Roseville home
The injured sisters were found about 7:30 a.m. at the couple’s home in the Fiddyment Farm neighborhood off North Harden Parkway and Holt Parkway. Medics initially were called to the Oahu Court home where an adult resident reported the 7-year-old girl was unresponsive.
Officers found the 7-year-old unresponsive in the home’s garage, according to the motion file by state prosecutors. The girl was taken to a hospital where she died.
An officer found the girl’s 5-year-old sister under a urine-soaked blanket in an upstairs bedroom. Bell wrote in his filed motion that police reports show the girl’s left eye was swollen shut, and she had “heavy bruising” covering most of the rest of her face. Bell said the girl also was found with “significant scarring” on her body consistent with prior abuse.
Police said the 5-year-old was taken to a hospital for treatment, and the girl was listed in stable condition later that night.
Two other children, who were Dupree’s daughters, were asleep inside the house and were not injured. Police said the girls were placed in the care of Child Protective Services.
Former Citrus Heights police officer
Dupree is a former Citrus Heights police officer. On March 20, 2024, Dupree filed a civil lawsuit against the Citrus Heights Police Department. Dupree alleged in the lawsuit that he was wrongfully fired from his job as an officer. He had only been on the job a few months.
Dupree said his former fiancee and the mother of his two daughters filed a false report in July 2021 with the Elk Grove Police Department that claimed the former Natomas High and Yuba College football athlete was physical with her. Dupree alleges in the lawsuit that his former fiancee “made false allegations because she was upset that she and (he) were no longer in a relationship, and she was afraid that (he) was going to get custody of their daughters.”
The lawsuit against Citrus Heights police is still pending, and the civil case is scheduled to return for a settlement conference next year in Sacramento Superior Court.
Placer family court records show Dupree’s former fiancee in December 2021 petitioned and received a domestic violence restraining order against the former police officer. That was followed by a custody battle in court.
In May 2022, the family court judge vacated the restraining order against Dupree. The judge also ordered the parents to have joint-custody of their daughters, along with orders for the parents to exchange custody of the girls in the parking lots of a Sacramento County sheriff’s station or the Roseville Police Department. A few months later, the court ordered the parents again to participate in co-parenting counseling.
Roseville mall theft case
Dupree and Savangsy were initially arrested on felony charges of grand theft and criminal conspiracy for alleged incidents Oct. 6 at the Galleria.
Dupree faced an additional misdemeanor charge of possessing a loaded gun in a public place. Dupree and Savangsy were jailed, then released after they each posted a $30,000 bail bond.
The day after the Oct. 6 arrests, Sierra College officials placed Dupree on administrative leave. He had worked as a community safety officer since April 10, 2024, at the college campus in Rocklin.
On Nov. 13, the Placer County District Attorney’s Office filed a criminal complaint against the couple, formally charging Savangsy with four counts of misdemeanor petty theft and Dupree with misdemeanor gun possession. The felony charges the couple initially faced were gone.
The criminal complaint alleges Savangsy stole items from Lush cosmetics, Oakley, Sports Fever and GameStop stores at the Galleria. At a Nov. 17 arraignment hearing, Dupree and Savangsy pleaded not guilty to those charges. The judge ordered them to stay away from the mall while free on bail and awaiting prosecution. That criminal case is still pending.
Security guard license
On Friday, state prosecutors filed a motion asking the court to suspend Dupree’s security guard license issued on Jan. 15, 2021, by the California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services. The license was valid through Jan. 31, 2027, according to the filed motion.
Deputy Attorney General Kevin Bell, who appeared in court Monday for the arraignment, wrote in the motion that officers with the Roseville Police Department responded the Galleria mall on Oct. 6 after witnesses reported seeing Dupree and Savangsy entering stores at the mall and working together to steal merchandise.
Officers pulled over the couple’s vehicle in the mall parking lot. Bell said the police report shows that officers searched the vehicle and found $982 worth of stolen merchandise from various stores. The officers also found in the vehicle Dupree’s security guard duty belt holding a loaded Glock 17 handgun, a Taser gun, pepper spray and his Sierra College community safety badge.
On Monday, Judge Eugene Gini said in court that he read the filed motion and granted the state’s request to suspend Dupree’s security guard license until the completion of the pending murder case. Gini scheduled Dupree and Savangsy to return to court Feb. 24 for further proceedings in the case.
This story was originally published January 5, 2026 at 1:29 PM.
