GUILTY TX - Kasey Davis, 20, shot to death, Conroe, 3 Jan 2006

[texasgirl]

CONROE, Texas - TCU freshman kicker Kasey Davis was shot to death early Tuesday, his body found in his car by police in the parking lot of an apartment complex.
The 20-year-old player had a gunshot wound to his chest and was pronounced dead at the hospital, police said.

More at link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060103/ap_on_sp_co_ne/fbc_t25_tcu_player_killed

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Jeffrey Clay Lasiter ended up pleading guilty to the murder in 2007 and was sentenced to life in prison. He appealed the ruling a couple of years later and it was denied.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Conroe-killer-gets-life-for-TCU-football-player-s-1832977.php

A judge determining punishment for a man who admitting killing a college student sent him to prison for life on Wednesday, saying her decision was the safest for the community.

Defense attorneys for Jeffrey Clay Lasiter argued that he suffered from a mental illness that caused him to have delusions, and those delusions triggered him to shoot Kasey Davis, a Texas Christian University football player who was home on a holiday break in January 2006.

After three days of testimony, she determined Lasiter acted with malice, and gave him the maximum sentence for murder, a first-degree felony.

Lasiter, 42, pleaded guilty on Monday to murder, admitting he shot Davis in the parking lot of a Conroe apartment complex. He decided to let the judge determine his punishment.

Davis' mother, Judy Cantrell, said she doesn't believe Lasiter has a mental illness.

''He really tried to fake his way through this," Cantrell said after the trial. "It was an act to get a lesser sentence."

The appeals decision has more details of Kasey's murder.

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/tx-court-of-appeals/1265692.html