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by ELB
Sat Oct 13, 2018 9:03 am
Forum: The Crime Blotter
Topic: TX: Home invader sentenced to life in prison
Replies: 17
Views: 3947

Re: TX: Home invader sentenced to life in prison

Texas has executed 555 people since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. There have been three commutations to life during that period, the last being Thomas Bartlett Whitaker by Governor Abbot on the recommendation of the seven-member Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles (the Governor cannot commute executions on his own initiated, the Board must provide a recommendation).

I have no doubt Thomas Bartlett Whitaker is a sociopath and would say whatever sounds good at the time, but I also have no doubt that the father he tried to have killed, and who forgave the killers before he even knew his son was involved, is sincere. I think the commutation was more for the father's benefit than the son's.
by ELB
Fri Oct 12, 2018 11:00 am
Forum: The Crime Blotter
Topic: TX: Home invader sentenced to life in prison
Replies: 17
Views: 3947

TX: Home invader sentenced to life in prison

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local ... 299170.php

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local ... 297836.php

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/ ... 297836.php

On night of 10 Oct 17 18 yo Jonathan Perales found an unlocked door or gate at a home in Universal City. He entered twice to steal things and put them in his car. On his third trip into the house, the homeowners sleeping in their bedroom heard noise and awoke. The husband armed himself with a Glock 9mm and shouted for Perales to leave. Perales claims he was high on Xanax and got lost trying to find the front door; instead he opened the bedroom door where the homeowners were.

The husband and Perales exchanged two shots each. Perales was hit in the arm and chest, the husband in the elbow and left abdomen. The husband bled to death in the bedroom and Perales escaped to his vehicle. Perales ended up at the house next door, where (amazingly) they let him in and he collapsed on the floor. Those people called the police, who were also answering a call from the original house. Perales admitted to police he had shot someone and they found the gun in his pocket and that he was wearing one red shoe. The other red shoe was found in the bedroom where the husband died.

Perales was tried and convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life without parole, just yesterday it appears, a little more than one year since the murder.

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