Your Blotter: Two get life in prison; shooting victim was second son lost to violence; trial date set for former Kennedale mayor

Fort Worth ex-con gets life for killing woman during meth binge

A 34-year-old ex-con was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for fatally shooting a woman during a heated argument inside her home nearlty a year ago.

Jurors deliberated a little more than an hour before sentencing Frank Byrd of Fort Worth to the maximum for the Jan. 4, 2012, slaying of Hilary Eaton, a 39-year-old mother of three.

Prosecutors said the shooting resulted from an argument fueled by paranoia and sleepless days on a meth binge.

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Mitch Mitchell has more in this report.

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Shooting victim was Fort Worth mother's second son lost to violence

A man shot to death on Flamingo Road Sunday night has been identified as Dwaine Plummer, 24, who died from multiple gunshot wounds to his chest. His mother told a local TV news crew that he was her second son to be shot to death since 2010.

Domingo Ramirez Jr. has the report.

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Second man convicted in Valero store slayings

It took a jury less than 45 minutes to decide that Randy Seibel, 38, is guilty of capital murder in the March 2010 slayings of a 70-year-old bread truck driver and a 22-year-old store clerk during the robbery of a Valero store on Mansfield Highway.

Seibel will serve a life prison sentence with no chance for parole. He is the second man to be tried for the murders.

Mitch Mitchell reports.

Trial date set for former Kennedale mayor

Former Kennedale Mayor Bryan Lankhorst is scheduled to go on trial July 9 on four counts of offensive or provocative physical contact stemming from complaints made May 17 by sixth-grade girls at an Arlington elementary school where  he was substitute teaching.

Patrick M. Walker has this report.

 

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