Jeffery Sentenced To Total Of 60 Years In Prison Murder, Aggravated Assault
Robert Clevon Jeffery was sentenced Thursday afternoon, Sept. 15, 2022, to a total of 60 years in prison, 45 years for the murder of 35-year-old Damien Damon Wiley of Cooper and 15 years for the aggravated assault of 22-year-old Saquan Harrion Reynolds on Aug. 29, 2021. The two sentences, however, are to be served concurrently, officials reported Thursday afternoon. The sentence was reached after about 4 hours of deliberations by the...
Jeffery Found Guilty Of Murder, Aggravated Assault In 2021 Cooper Gas Station Shooting
Robert Clevon Jeffery has been found guilty of the murder of 35-year-old Damien Damon Wiley of Cooper and aggravated assault of 22-year-old Saquan Harrion Reynolds on Aug. 29, 2021, at Cooper Mart on West Dallas Street in Cooper, Texas. The jury was given the charge and began deliberating punishment for Jeffery around 10:45 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 15. Robert Clevon Jeffery (2021 jail photo) The trial of Jeffery began with jury...
Suspect Arrested In Connection With 2007 Murder Of Winnsboro Teen
A suspect has been arrested in connection with the 2007 murder of a Winnsboro teen, according to a Wood County Sheriff’s Office report. Chad Earl Carr (Wood County Sheriff’s Office jail Photo) WCSO Capt. Mike Chilson and Texas Ranger John Vance traveled to Dallas, where they located and took Chad Earl Carr into custody. Carr was arrested Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, on a capital murder warrant WCSO obtained for Carr’s...
Charges Upgraded To Capital Murder For Pair Accused Of Killing Man, Dumping His Body In Hopkins County
August 4, 2022 – Charges have been upgraded to capital murder against a pair accused of killing and dumping a Dallas area man’s body in Hopkins County in mid-June, according to jail reports. Diamonte Jakeli Paynes Diamonte Jakeli Paynes and Aleigha Denise Coble have been in Hopkins County jail since June 22, 2022, on one murder charge each. The pair was accused of killing a 35-year-old man, then, of dumping his body in a...
Both Suspects In June 13 Murder Now In Custody At Hopkins County Jail
June 23, 2022 – The two murder suspects Hopkins County officers tracked from Texas to Missouri last Wednesday night are now in Hopkins County jail on one murder charge each, according to arrest and jail reports. Aleigha Denise Coble (HCSO jail photo) The pair, accused of killing and dumping a 35-year-old man’s body in a wooded area, were transported Wednesday afternoon, June 22, 2022, by Hopkins County Sheriff’s...
Hopkins County Officers Track 2 Murder Suspects To Missouri
Hopkins County officers tracked two murder suspects to Missouri, where they were reported to have been apprehended and were in custody Wednesday at 8:35 p.m., according to Hopkins County Sheriff Lewis Tatum. Sheriff’s deputies found an abandoned vehicle when checking out a report of someone’s personal items being located on a county road north of Sulphur Springs Monday evening. The vehicle came back as being from the...
Palo Pinto County Murder Suspect Apprehended In Hopkins County
A Palo Pinto County murder suspect was apprehended in Hopkins County over the weekend. Hopkins County Sheriff’s Deputy Zach Steward reported stopping a silver Chrysler 300 Saturday afternoon on Interstate 30 east near mile marker 130 for not having a front license plate. While talking to the driver, Steward detected a marijuana odor in the car, so he had the driver and passenger step out of the car while he conducted a probable...
SSHS Jury Renders Guilty Verdict in Mock Murder Trial Performed At Courthouse
A Sulphur Springs High School jury found a defendant guilt during a mock murder trial performed at Hopkins County Courthouse Tuesday morning. The mock trial is an annual event conducted to allow SSHS students to practice in a real courtroom things they’ve learned in class as part of the pretend case. Students are selected to serve as witnesses, court bailiffs, prosecuting and defense attorneys, victims or those connected to...
Tarrant County Murder Suspect Arrested In Sulphur Springs
A Tarrant County murder suspect was arrested Wednesday morning in Sulphur Springs, the second time the 24-year-old Sulphur Springs man has been jailed locally on an out-of-town murder warrant, according to arrest and jail reports. Keshawn Cardale Sims (HCSO jail photo) Sulphur Springs Police Special Crimes Unit Lt. Mark Estes reported being contacted by the North Texas Fugitive Task Force regarding 24-year-old Keshawn Cardale Sims, a...
Cooper Man Accused Of Murder, Shooting Assault At Cooper Mart
A 47-year-old Cooper man was held Monday morning in Hopkins County jail in connection with a shooting incident at a West Dallas Street store in Cooper that left one man dead and sent another to the hospital, according to Delta and Hopkins County Sheriffs’ Office reports. On Sunday, August 29, 2021, at approximately 9:53 a.m., deputies with the Delta County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a shooting at the Cooper Mart located...