A jury found the 19-year-old guilty of capital murder in the 2022 shooting, resulting in him receiving an automatic life sentence.
TARRANT COUNTY, Texas — A 19-year-old man will serve life in prison after being found guilty this week by a Tarrant County jury of shooting and killing two people in 2022 in Fort Worth.
The man, Nixon-Clark, was found guilty of capital murder and received an automatic life sentence.
Officials say Nixon-Clark and other people drove through a northwest Fort Worth neighborhood on Aug. 28, 2022, where they parked and watched a house on Steel Dust Drive where teenagers and children were playing.
Nixon-Clark and another man got out of the car in masks with guns and ran to the house, firing more than a dozen shots, then ran back to the car and drove off.
“They riddle that garage with bullets,” Tarrant County Assistant District Attorney Melinda Hogan told jurors during the trial. “They unloaded 17 rounds into the garage where five children are playing.”
A 17-year-old, Jamarrien Monroe, and his 5-year-old cousin, Rayshard Javon Scott, were killed. Others were injured, including Monroe’s 18-month-old son.
“We can never get back what we lost,” Monroe’s mother, Tijuana West, told the courtroom after sentencing.
She also told Nixon-Clark he has a family that clear loves him and that “there’s a greatness in you that goes way beyond your circumstances.”
The other suspect arrested in the crime, 23-year-old Anthony Bell-Johnson, is facing a separate capital murder charge.