A Houston man was sentenced to life in prison without parole late Thursday after being convicted of capital murder in the robbery and shooting of an employee at a Sunnyside recording studio specializing in rap and hip hop, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced.

“This was an intentional and premeditated armed robbery and shootout,” Ogg said. “This defendant gunned down a man who was a good father and a loving grandfather for practically nothing, and because of that, this defendant belongs in prison for the rest of his life.”

Ethan Jenkins, 28, was convicted of capital murder by a Harris County jury for robbing and killing 42-year-old Jon Whitfield at about 10 p.m. on March 25, 2019.

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A Harris County jury on Thursday sentenced a 40-year-old man to life in prison and a $10,000 fine for the 2020 murder of his estranged girlfriend in Baytown, District Attorney Kim Ogg announced.

“This is a heartbreaking example of how dangerous domestic violence can be, especially when a woman is trying to get out of a bad situation,” Ogg said. “This man thought he should be allowed to control a woman he had a brief relationship with, and when the relationship ended, he executed her in cold blood.”

Robert Joseph Roberts, 40, fatally shot 31-year-old Jazmin Simone Garrett in her car at an apartment complex in the 900 block of Northwood Drive in Baytown on October 28, 2020.

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A Houston man who fatally shot a woman in 2017 and then was charged with a second murder in 2020 was sentenced late Tuesday to life in prison, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced.

“This defendant was involved in two separate fatal shootings, including one where he grievously injured two women out on a ‘girls’ night’ with their friend,” Ogg said. “In the second shooting, he opened fire at a gas station in broad daylight and could have killed even more people. The consequences for that kind of rampant gun violence has to be a life sentence.”

Gerald Dewayne Washington, 30, was convicted of murder by a Harris County jury on Monday, the seventh day of trial, for the fatal shooting of 33-year-old Crystal Turner. On Tuesday, the eighth day of trial, Washington was sentenced by state District Judge Ramona Franklin to life in prison.

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A Houston man pleaded guilty to murder Monday in exchange for a life sentence in prison for fatally shooting the manager of a convenience store with a game room in south Houston, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced. He was the second man to plead guilty in the 2021 murder.

“This case was solved by law enforcement, but we were able to get justice because civilians who were witnesses in this case were willing to come to court and testify,” Ogg said. “We mourn with the family who lost this beloved uncle and brother to senseless gun violence.”

Aaron Chisolm, 32, admitted to his role in the robbery and shooting of two men at a convenience store in the 7200 block of Long Drive at about 2:45 a.m. on February 16, 2021.

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An Humble man was sentenced late Friday to 75 years in prison for the murder of a 22-year-old in November 2020, District Attorney Kim Ogg announced.

“This defendant spent hours doing everything he could to lure this young man to his death, including sending messages and making calls to set up the victim,” Ogg said. “We are grateful the jury saw exactly how cold and calculated this murder was and handed down the appropriate sentence.”

Siten Anney, 20, was sentenced after being convicted of murder in a four-day trial for the shooting death of 22-year-old Trevor Alan Harrison on November 23, 2020.

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A Houston man was sentenced Wednesday to 36 years in prison in exchange for pleading guilty to murder for brutally stabbing his girlfriend in 2019, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced. 

"Intimate partner violence affects every community, and far too often we see it escalate into murder," Ogg said. "The most dangerous time for anyone in an abusive relationship is when they are trying to leave the situation, and that's why we take every allegation of domestic violence so seriously."

Joshua Dominic Lege Bourgeois, a 29-year-old man who was homeless at the time of the murder, fatally stabbed Tracy Williams, a transgender woman, as the couple walked along the frontage road in the 11000 block of the Katy Freeway in the Memorial area on July 30, 2019.

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A documented Houston gang member was sentenced to life in prison without parole this week after a Harris County jury convicted him of capital murder for killing an 11-year-old after having been released on bond for a capital murder committed four years earlier, District Attorney Kim Ogg announced.

“A little boy with his whole life ahead of him was murdered because of a cold-blooded ambush in broad daylight,” Ogg said. “This was a capital murder, and the appropriate sentence is life in prison without parole.”

Desmond Hawkins, 23, was convicted of capital murder for fatally shooting 11-year-old Dominic Sumicek on October 26, 2020. Hawkins shot and killed the boy and his stepfather, 41-year-old Menuell Solomon, while the two sat in Solomon’s car outside their home. Intentionally killing a child under the age of 14 is a capital crime.

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A 26-year-old Houston man, who was already in prison for raping two women, was sentenced late Wednesday to 60 years in prison for murder, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced.

“This defendant, who raped two women by gunpoint and shot a young father for money, was a threat to the community and deserves to spend decades in prison,” Ogg said. “Gun violence is pervasive in every neighborhood, and we work hard to get these cases to trial so that families have some closure.”

Willie Robert Scott, 26, raped two women at gunpoint as they were moving into an apartment near Scott’s home on February 20, 2015. 

Eight months later, on October 23, 2015, he fatally shot Dedrick Coleman, a 20-year-old father of a two-year-old son, as Coleman walked home from a neighborhood store. Scott took Coleman’s money and cell phone.

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