A jury found Edward Murray guilty of murder and sentenced him to life in prison. Murray shot his neighbor outside a duplex in Fort Worth TX.
Defendant Edward Murray returns to the courtroom for his trial’s punishment phase in the 485th District Court in Tarrant County at the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center in Fort Worth on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. A jury found Murray guilty of murder in the Sept. 27, 2020, shooting death of Antonio Robinson in southeast Fort Worth.
On Wednesday, in about the same amount of time, the jury found that Murray should serve life in prison and pay a $10,000 fine, the crime’s maximum punishment. The panel at the trial in the 485th District Court in Tarrant County at which Judge Steven Jumes presided, was asked to select a term of between 15 and 99 years or life.
Murray chose not to testify at the guilt-innocence trial phase, but did take the witness stand during the defense punishment case. He told jurors he was molested, once by a boy when Murray was also a child and later by an adult.As he was questioned on direct examination by defense attorney Taylor Ferguson, Murray said he took shots of vodka in the hours before he shot Robinson. Bethel Zehaie also represented Murray.“I’m sorry that I let this happen,” the defendant testified. “It’s not about me.
Murray was in 2001 convicted in Dallas County of aggravated sexual assault of a child and served all of his 10-year sentence. The victim was a 9-year-old girl.
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