Suspects sentenced in Dallas father of 5’s murder in robbery outside Costco

DALLAS — Two Dallas men have received plea deals in the deadly robbery of a father of five outside of a Costco store in 2021, officials said.

James Levels, 20, and Camron Range, 18, both pleaded guilty in the murder and robbery of Ali Elbanna, who was fatally shot on Nov. 16, 2021, outside of a Costco Business Center store near Park Lane and Greenville Avenue in North Dallas.

Levels received a sentenced of 40 years for murder and 25 years for aggravated robbery. Range received a sentence of 60 years for capital murder and 30 years for aggravated robbery.

Both men will serve their sentences concurrently.

Watch the victim impact statements from Elbanna’s family in court Monday:

Officials said that Range, Levels and two others went on a crime spree on Nov. 15, 2021. That spree ended with Elbanna’s murder the next day outside of a North Dallas Costco, detectives said.

In court, detectives said the day before Elbanna was killed, Range, who was wearing an ankle monitor, stole a truck in Highland Park. The teen and the three adult suspects used that truck to rob two students outside South Oak High School and also attempted to carjack a woman at NorthPark Center. 

Detectives said about 10 minutes later, they showed up at Costco and confronted Elbanna in an attempt to rob him.

A homicide detective testified that the suspect “pointed a gun at the victim and said, ‘Give me everything'” and that “the victim said ‘no’ and was shot.”

Prosecutors said that Range had a long criminal history and was on probation prior to shooting and killing Elbanna.  

Prosecutors presented evidence that Range was on probation for burglary when he was released just two weeks before Elbanna’s murder – because there was no room for him in a juvenile facility.

“It is my firm belief that he not be released at that time, my father would still be here today,” Iman Elbanna said in a previous news conference.

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