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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Is there a problem here?
5.56mm
Well...according to the article the one shot is the “victim”
Yeah, because the person shot is ALWAYS the victim. Bad guns, you know.......
Kinda like shooting in a baiting field, not very sporting but the meat tastes fine.
“ Kinda like shooting in a baiting field,”
It’s legal to shoot over a baited field in Texas, just not for birds.
He could have used a bit more discretion.
And why would he believe that?
My sense of it is that you got it right!
Houston? Sorosite DA. He probably should have chosen a nearby county.
Well, the justice system protects h*llary cl*nton, so doesn’t it protect all of us?
Yeah, I know...
Not Guilty, too.
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