Aggie killer to be executed.

LIVINGSTON, Tex. - With a single gunshot in 1994, Ron Scott Shamburger went from a college senior to a capital murderer.

The East Texas native with boy-next-door looks shocked the Texas A&M University community when he murdered fellow Aggie Lori Ann Baker, 20, during what he says was a botched burglary at her College Station duplex.

But others believe that Shamburger had an obsession with Baker, stalked her and intended to kill her all along. Whatever the reason, Texas plans to execute him in Huntsville on September 18. Shamburger says he is ready to die.

"Whether I die this year, next year or if I live 30 years, my walk is with the Lord," he said in a Death Row interview. "When your relationship is with the Lord, death shouldn't be something that's feared. To die for the Lord Jesus is not a hard thing. To live for him is."

The murder occurred in the early morning hours of Sept. 30, 1994, Shamburger shot Baker in the forehead when she awoke to find him inside her house. While he was searching for the bullet - reportedly by using a knife to dig into the wound - Shamburger was interrupted when Baker's roommate, Victoria Kohler, got home.

He bound Kohler's hands with duct tape, threw her into his trunk and drove away before abandoning the car with her still in it and alive. Upon verifying that she could not identify him, he returned to the crime scene, where he set Baker's body on fire in an attempt to cover up the murder.

District Judge Steve Smith set an execution date for a man convicted of shooting a fellow Texas A&M University student while burglarizing her home in 1994. Ronald Scott Shamburger, 30, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Sept. 18 for the capital murder of Lori Ann Baker, 20. Shamburger, whom Lori had refused to date, broke into Baker’s home in the early morning hours of September 30, 1994 as he had done on several previous occasions. Shamburger, a medical student and born-again Christian, was surprised to find her home. He shot her in the head with a pistol when she awoke to find him in her bedroom, killing her instantly. Determined to get rid of the evidence, Shamburger tried to remove the bullet from Lori's head with a knife and scissors, but was caught in the act when her roommate returned home. He asked her if she could identify him, the roommate lied and said no, so Shamburger put her in the trunk of her car, binding her hands with duct tape. He then backed the car through the garage door. Shamburger drove a few blocks before abandoning the car and returning to the home, where he doused Lori’s body with gasoline and set it on fire to hide the crime. After setting fire to the home in an attempt to destroy the evidence, he realized that he had left the car keys inside. Just a few minutes later, Shamburger called his minister to confess, then walked up to the after hours window at the College Station police department and said he had something important to tell them. A Brazos County jury convicted him of capital murder in 1995. Prosecutors noted that in the months prior to the murder, he had committed a string of burglaries.

Dear Texas,
Please dispatch this POC to his ultimate destiny ASAP!

Good luck kid, on flim flamming the "Big Guy"! Send us an email on how it works out.

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