Posted on 02/04/2024 9:26:35 AM PST by lowbridge
A Texas man is charged with murder after allegedly posing as a minor to meet and kill a convicted sex offender, according to authorities.
The Houston Police Department alleges that in May 2023, James Spencer III, 22, shot and killed victim Sean Connery Showers, 37.
Police claim Showers approached a vehicle in the early morning hours of May 29 and then was shot by the suspect, who at the time was unidentified. Upon further investigation, police arrested Spencer, who they claim admitted to the killing.
Showers was found in a ditch with multiple gunshot wounds, police say.
Citing authorities, Click 2 Houston and ABC 13 report that Spencer allegedly claimed to be a minor online, in an attempt to lure Showers under the guise of sex, who he believed was a sex offender.
Showers pleaded guilty to possessing child sex abuse material in 2009, federal authorities said at the time, ABC 13 reports. Showers was sentenced to 30 months in prison and then to two years in 2019 for failing to register as a sex offender, per the outlet.
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GIVE HIM A MEDAL
HE IS CLEANING OUT THE TRASH
Did a better job than most currently seated courts are doing.
Boomer?
Yeah, we don’t GAF.
NOT GUILTY.
Hhhmmmm....wonder if the shooter had been molested by the victim in the past?
Soros lawyer to fry him in 3...2...1...
Put me on that jury.
I think the “cruel and unusual” needs to be dropped in the case of child sexual abuse
Bet 007 did it a lot when he was still with us.
I would say he’d been molested, perhaps by someone else, but one dead child rapist is just as good as the next.
Tadadump, tadadump. Another one bites the dust...
Mixed feelings here. Not sure there is a crime.
Why couldn’t he bury him? Hide the evidence.
*“Regardless of the likability of the victim, we’re a nation of laws,” Merchant said at the press conference. “So no one gets to be judge, jury and executioner depending on how they feel.”*
He’s right. The justice system will protect us.
Jury nullification.
I wonder if Spencer had been molested as a child and decided to take matters into his own hands.
Certainly the government is doing nothing to stop predators. At least this pervert won’t be able to harm any more children.
What *victim*? Surely you don’t mean the child molester who got shot?
There must be more to the story.
The cure for pedophilia!
It is also being reported that Spencer told others that he intended to not just kill, but rob sex offenders.
If that is accurate, Spencer is facing a Capital Murder charge in Harris County.
Was the dead guy targeted, or was the shooter trolling for any old prevert?
That’s one question.
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