GUILTY TX - Lauren Landavazo, 13, killed & one injured in shooting, Wichita Falls, 2 Sept 16

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 37s37 seconds ago
Shelton: Dr. Falls had no experience.

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Shelton: Price has been a forensic psychologist 35 years.

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Shelton: Ladies & gentlemen, you saw that I was a little emotional in my opening statement, and now you know why.

 

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Shelton: Told you I was going to ask you jurors to do what’s right.

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Judge recesses jury at 4:22 pm to go deliberate on the case.

Verdict Watch

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 3m3 minutes ago
Lott is charged with murder, a first-degree felony punishable by 5 to 99 years or life & a $10,000 fine.

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Lott is also charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony punishable by 2 to 20 years in prison & a fine up to $10,000. This charge is in connection with Makayla Smith being shot.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 34m34 minutes ago
Attorneys in the case have said the jury’s choice will really be between guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity since that he committed the crime has not been in dispute.

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Prosecution's forensic psychologist: Kody Lott was sane at time of shooting https://wtrne.ws/2D9v4ds via @timesrecordnews

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 34m34 minutes ago
Attorneys in the case have said the jury’s choice will really be between guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity since that he committed the crime has not been in dispute.

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Prosecution's forensic psychologist: Kody Lott was sane at time of shooting https://wtrne.ws/2D9v4ds via @timesrecordnews

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2m2 minutes ago
Jury finds Kody Austin Lott, 22, guilty of murder & aggravated assault in just over 40 minutes.

(That was quick!)

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2m2 minutes ago
Punishment phase begins tomorrow morning.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 5m5 minutes ago
DA Shelton hugs Landavazo family member after guilty verdict.

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Bianka and Vern Landavazo, Lauren Landavazo’s parents, absorbing the news of a guilty verdict.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Punishment phase of trial underway with objections from defense to testimony of family witnesses — without jury itself.

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Wichita County Criminal District Attorney Maureen Shelton says it is victim impact testimony. Shamekia Smith is expected to testify.

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Vern: Her nickname was Pooh Bear. “From the moment I saw her, she was my Pooh Bear.”

 

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Vern: He had the day off Sept. 2, 2016, & realized there was a commotion.

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Vern: He thought that there were 1,000 kids at the school, and it couldn’t be her.

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Vern: He called Lauren’s cell & instantly heard screaming when someone answered it.

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Vern: That’s when he knew something had happened to Lauren, & he went cold all over.

 

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Vern: Later, he rode in the ambulance with Lauren & paramedics said they had a heartbeat. “Baby, hold on. Hold on,” he told Lauren.

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Vern: At the hospital, they were taken into a room. He told Bianka that Lauren wasn’t dead because they had a heartbeat.

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Vern: But they were told Lauren was dead.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 58m58 minutes ago
Vern: He & Bianka weren’t allowed to see their daughter at the hospital because the room was being treated like a crime scene. (Family members & other observers are weeping)

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Vern: He spoke at Lauren’s funeral because she had said, “My daddy is my pastor.”

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Vern: They aren’t religious but are spiritual.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 53m53 minutes ago
Vern: I talked at her funeral, trying to make sense of it all. “Just the fact that somebody that beautiful, that kind could be taken away, there’s something wrong with the world,” he said.

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Vern: After the shooting a memorial sprang up to Lauren at the scene of the shooting with lots of purple & bears.

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Vern: Since Lauren’s death, there have been other memorials to her, including an angel stature at the MPEC.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 48m48 minutes ago
Vern: Lauren was cremated and the statue is a place for the family to go.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 46m46 minutes ago
Vern: When he found out Lott had killed her, he was shocked and thought “how evil” Lott looked in his mugshot. – at Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center

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Vern’s moving testimony concludes & the judge sends the jury out for a recess.