Lagrone refused to speak with reporters as his execution date approached. The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon, acting on an appeal filed by Lagrone's lawyers, refused to review his case and stop the punishment.
Lagrone lived in Arlington and had worked as a cook but was known in Fort Worth's Stop Six area as a drug dealer.
He denied impregnating the girl, who completed the fourth grade the day before she was killed. DNA evidence, however, excluded 99.99 percent of other men as the father. Eight genetic tests could not exclude him, a DNA expert testified.
Pamela Lloyd testified Shakeisha was concealing her 19-month-old sister behind some boxes and shouting at her mother to hide when she was shot. The woman fled to a closet.
Omar Anderson, Lagrone's son, serving a life prison term for a 1992 murder, testified at his father's trial another man was responsible for the killings. Montague, however, said relatives who survived the shooting spree identified Lagrone.
"We had a lock-tight case as far as we were concerned," Montague said.
A jury deliberated 50 minutes before finding him guilty of capital murder.
During punishment phase, two of Lagrone's sisters testified he terrorized and sexually assaulted them at gunpoint in 1986. The same jury needed 25 minutes to decide he should get lethal injection.
In 1997, Pamela Lloyd was arrested for killing her husband of four years. Sentenced to five years on a murder conviction, she's scheduled for release in July.
While state procedures allow family members to witness the execution of the person condemned for killing a relative, prison regulations bar Lloyd, as an inmate, from watching the killer of her daughter die.
Like father, like son. How nice...