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

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Shelton: He had the gun racked, stopped at the end of the alley to block his victims from leaving, did the shooting in the night of the football game because there would be more traffic, listened to a scanner app on the phone to track police, checked social media.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Falls is resistant to most of that and tries to elaborate to explain how delusions are manifested.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
There are objections from Public Defender James Rasmussen during Shelton’s cross examination of Falls. 30th District Bob Brotherton sustains a couple.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Bianka Landavazo, Lauren Landavazo’s mother, wipes tears away after Shelton notes that Lott knew he had killed Lauren because he saw a “tuft of her hair going up in the air” as the DA seeks to make a point.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Shelton: After hearing more evidence & considering another doctor’s report, would you change your evaluation of Lott’s sanity at the time of the crime? Falls: No. Falls found that Lott was insane at the time of shooting. Shelton passes the witness back to Rasmussen.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Rasmussen: Tell the jury about Lott’s beliefs that showed he was insane.

 

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Falls: Lott said God had sent Lauren to earth as an angel, and she couldn’t die.

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Falls turns to speak directly to the jury to say that Lott’s delusional beliefs cancelled out & undermined his knowledge of wrongdoing.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Falls: During a jailhouse call with his mother, Lott wanted to know why he was in jail. His mother told him it was because he killed “that little girl.” Lott trusted his mother when she challenged his delusions and could see things more his way.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Rasmussen: How do you square the rational things Lott did regarding the shooting? Falls: As I said before, people with psychotic delusions can appear rational.

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Jury appears to be listening closely to Falls’ explanations of how rational acts and psychotic delusions can exist side by side in Lott’s mind.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Falls: Killing Lauren Landavazo wasn’t wrong in Lott’s mind because he thought he was saving children who were being tortured & sacrificed.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Rasmussen: Explain how the drug use affected him.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Falls: His brain established a new normal based on the drugs he was using. He was taking 80-90 milligrams of hydrocodone a day to be his normal.

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Rasmussen passed Falls back to Shelton, who digs on.

 

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Shelton: Did he say, “I’m already getting punished as if I murdered someone, so I might as well murder someone?” Falls: Yes.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 37m37 minutes ago
WFPD detective Allen Killingsworth on the stand.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 34m34 minutes ago
Killingsworth is a detective in Crimes Against Persons Unit.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 33m33 minutes ago
Killingsworth estimated maybe one or 2 murders of juveniles in last 5 years investigated by Wichita Falls police.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 32m32 minutes ago
Killingsworth said he heard about the shooting & went to see what was going on. Misinformation is an issue w/early reports, he said.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 30m30 minutes ago
On scene, the supervisor decided that Killingsworth would work w/juvenile detective Walt Vermillion on the shooting as Killingsworth had more experience, he testified.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 29m29 minutes ago
Killingsworth: They we’re trying to find out if the victims and the gunman knew each other at first.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 29m29 minutes ago
Killingsworth: Yes, has exhausted all leads & thinking of calling in a sketch artist when the traffic stop of Lott in the parking lot of Braun’s on Southwest Parkway happened.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 26m26 minutes ago
Killingsworth: After his arrest, Lott brought to WFPD for questioning.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 26m26 minutes ago
Killingsworth: Advised Lott if his rights & he agreed to waive them to speak to police.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 24m24 minutes ago
Killingsworth: No, Lott was not acting crazy. No, he didn’t ask to stop the interview & wasn’t denied basic necessities such as restroom breaks, cigarettes or food.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 24m24 minutes ago
Shelton offers Lott’s at least three-hour videotaped statement to police into evidence.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 23m23 minutes ago
Judge: Jurors will listen to statement until noon. Then see more after lunch.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 20m20 minutes ago
Jury is watching videotaped statement of Lott to police.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 19m19 minutes ago
Lott watching his statement.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 15m15 minutes ago
Lott tells Killingsworth he doesn’t work or go to school and lives in Seymour w/his grandmother.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 15m15 minutes ago
Killingsworth reads Lott his writes, using a written form.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 11m11 minutes ago
Lott said his mom keeps an apt. in Santa Fe Apts. on Avenue K that he goes to when he needs to be alone, but she lives w/her husband, his stepfather.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 11m11 minutes ago
That’s where Lott was coming from when he was stopped.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 9m9 minutes ago
Lott said about 10 a.m. Friday, he took 40 milligrams of hydrocodone. Friday was Sept. 2, 2016. Lott was arrested Sept. 4, 2016.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 7m7 minutes ago
On the tape, Lott wears a white T shirt, shorts & a ball cap on backwards.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 6m6 minutes ago
Lott said he bought the brass knuckles found in the Tahoe when he was a kid.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 5m5 minutes ago
Lott says he hasn’t shot a gun in about a year, and he was in Olney at the time of the shooting.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 3m3 minutes ago
A woman named Casey Jones Lawanna (not sure of spelling) is the only one who can confirm he was in Olney at the time of the shooting.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1m1 minute ago
Killingsworth: “In the area where you were seen coming from today is where the shooting took place.” Police have a description matching his vehicle & him.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 59s59 seconds ago
Killingsworth: “You have to admit that it’s ironic that your vehicle matched your description & you match the description.”

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Killingsworth: We found a spent 22 shell casing in your vehicle.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 3m3 minutes ago
Lott: I don’t know if there are more guns in my mom & stepdad’s apt.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2m2 minutes ago
Lott volunteers that his stepbrother was possibly going to come by & a gun.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 3m3 minutes ago
Killingsworth: Two little girls were hurt by someone, & we don’t want that to happen again. We think this person didn’t act alone.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 4m4 minutes ago
Lott: I’m not trying to throw my stepbrother under the bus.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2m2 minutes ago
At one point Killingsworth said, “Whoever did this definitely needs some help. I’m talking about some serious psychological help.”

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2m2 minutes ago
Judge recesses for lunch.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Killingsworth on the tape: If you were just there driving down Trinidad & had nothing to do with it, tell me so we can clear you.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Lott said he’s been seeing a kid who drives a black truck everywhere he goes & exchanging words with him on Facebook.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Killingsworth tells Lott he can be in solitaire.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Lott said he’s had problems with females, he was jealous of Lauren Landavazo, & her boyfriend, “just a little punk-looking kid.”

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
The interview is taking a turn toward a confession.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Lott: Jealousy sparked in him & that’s how I handled it.