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Family of murder victim frustrated over possible plea deal consideration
Joshua Hardesty was shot and killed in 2018. Hardesty s father, Clifford, calls a plea deal to give the suspect a lighter sentence unacceptable. Author: Mike Marut (KVUE) Updated: 10:56 PM CDT June 25, 2021
AUSTIN, Texas In September 2018, Isaac Thomas Jr. allegedly killed Joshua Hardesty. A few months later, Bastrop law enforcement arrested Thomas on an unrelated killing. Hardesty s family met with the Travis County District Attorney after being told the DA s office would pursue a plea deal for Thomas. [Assistant District Attorney] Joshua Somers, the prosecuting attorney, and his team say they still are ready to go to trial and they feel very strong for their case, Hardesty s father, Clifford, said. You don t make a plea deal when you have everything that you want in a murder case.
New suspect arrested in Austin’s Sixth Street mass shooting in Killeen, police say
De’Ondre Jermirris White, 19, awaiting arraignment on murder charge
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De’Ondre Jermirris White, was arrested in connection with the shooting that left 25-year-old Douglas Cantor, a tourist from New York, dead, in a mass shooting in Austin. (KSAT)
KILLEEN, Texas – Killeen police say they have arrested a suspect connected with the mass shooting that happened in Austin on June 12, in which one person was killed and 13 others were injured.
Austin police and the Travis County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday they had dropped charges in the Sixth Street shooting against two people and were looking for 19-year-old De’Ondre Jermirris White in connection with the shooting that left 25-year-old Douglas Cantor, a tourist from New York, dead.
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AUSTIN â Prosecutors are dropping criminal charges against two teenagers, including at least one from Killeen, after police identified a different gunman in a mass shooting in downtown Austin that killed a tourist and wounded more than a dozen others, authorities said Tuesday.
Authorities have said the June 12 shooting on Austinâs 6th Street arose after an argument between two groups of teenagers from Killeen. Douglas John Kantor, 25, a tourist from New York, was killed by gunfire.
Police initially arrested 17-year-old Jeremiah Tabb, a Killeen resident and student in the Killeen Independent School District, on an aggravated assault charge and another juvenile, whose name wasnât released. Tabb was taken into custody by Killeen police at Harker Heights High School where he was attending summer school. He was charged as an adult. The juvenile was booked into the Travis County Juvenile Detention Center in Austin.