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    Todric Deon McDonald Sentenced to LWOP in 2014 TX Murder of Javier Gonzalez and Ulysses Gonzalez


    Ulysses Raul Gonzalez, 30, and Justin Javier Gonzalez, 24


    Todric Deon McDonald


    DA Will Seek Death Penalty In Deadly Double Shooting

    WACO - McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna announced Friday his office is seeking the death penalty for a man who is accused of capital murder in a May 13, 2014 double shooting.

    Todric McDonald, 28, is accused of killing Justin Javier Gonzalez, 24, and Ulysses Gonzalez, 30, both were shot to death inside an apartment at the Pecan Tree Apartments in the 2600 block of Grim Avenue.
    The two victims were cousins.

    Reyna said the killings were particularly brutal, but could not shed any light on the motive for the shootings.

    Online McLennan County Jail records show McDonald is held in lieu of $1,506 million in bonds on the capital murder and six other charges.

    Neither man actually lived in the apartment but had been there visiting friends, Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said at the time of the shootings.

    They were inside the apartment when one or more suspects entered and gunfire erupted, Swanton said.

    Both men were pronounced dead at the scene.

    McDonald was arrested on May 16, 2014, after a short chase that reached speeds of 85 miles per hour on a city street.

    A female and a toddler were in the car with him, police said.

    McDonald also was named in an indictment charging evading arrest in a vehicle in connection with a chase on the day of his arrest and for one count of aggravated assault and two counts of aggravated robbery in separate incidents, also reported in May.

    The aggravated assault charge stems from another shooting incident that happened in the 2300 block of Morrow just five hours before the double murder happened.

    A co-defendant in that shooting, Tony Olivarez, also was named in an indictment charging aggravated assault.

    Olivarez remains held in the McLennan County Jail in lieu of $504,000 bond.

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    Capital murder defendant fails in bid for new attorneys

    A Waco man facing the death penalty in a May 2014 double slaying failed Friday in his bid to replace his two court-appointed attorneys.

    Judge Ralph Strother of Waco’s 19th State District Court denied a motion from Todric McDonald to fire attorneys John Donahue and Jon Evans after a closed-door conference in the judge’s chambers.

    Donahue, Evans and McLennan County First Assistant District Attorney Michael Jarrett all declined comment after the hearing, citing a gag order Strother has placed on parties involved in the capital murder case.

    In a notarized motion McDonald filed with the court Aug. 31, McDonald tried to make it appear that Donahue was the one filing the motion and seeking to withdraw as counsel.

    However, the motion was not signed by Donahue and the person who notarized it is an officer at the Jack Harwell Detention Center, where the 28-year-old McDonald is housed with access to a law library and computer.

    McDonald is charged with capital murder in the deaths of Justin Javier Gonzalez, 24, and Ulysses Gonzalez, 30, at the Pecan Tree Apartments, 2600 Grim Ave.

    The district attorney’s office has said it will seek the death penalty if McDonald is convicted of capital murder in the cousins’ deaths. No date has been set for his trial.

    McDonald’s motion reads, in part, “The defendant and counsel are in fundamental and unalterable disagreement over the conduct of the defense and the objectives that should be pursued in preparing and presenting the defense. This disagreement affects the very basis of the attorney-client relationship and impairs both counsels (sic) ability to exercise his best professional judgment and the defendants (sic) right to the effective assistance of counsel.”

    McDonald also is indicted in separate cases for assault family violence, two counts of evading arrest in a vehicle, two counts of aggravated robbery and aggravated assault.

    He also has pending unindicted cases after arrests for unlawfully carrying a firearm by a felon, endangering a child and theft, according to court records.

    The cousins’ bodies were found lying on the living room floor of a second-story apartment. Each suffered multiple gunshot wounds, Waco police said.

    The two men did not live at the complex and were there visiting a friend, according to police reports.

    McDonald was arrested three days after the killings following a short police chase. Police said McDonald was working on a car outside his residence when officers from several agencies came to arrest him.

    He fled eastbound on Bosque Boulevard in his vehicle with a woman and a toddler inside.

    McDonald rammed a U.S. Marshals Service vehicle at North 26th Street and Bosque Boulevard, and McDonald’s car was forced onto the curb, officers said.

    He tried to run, but his door was stuck on the curb and he could not get out of the vehicle, according to reports.

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    Accused killer charged with masturbating in front of jailer

    Authorities filed a new indecent exposure charge against a man in McLennan County Jail awaiting a capital murder trial. Todric Deon McDonald is accused of calling a female guard to his cell and standing naked and masturbating as she arrived, according to an affidavit.

    McDonald, 29, was indicted in 2014 on a capital murder charge, and prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty if he is convicted. He was charged with misdemeanor indecent exposure after the May 10 incident in his cell.

    McDonald used an intercom system to ask the guard to pick up a request form at his cell to bring to jail administrators, according to the affidavit.

    The guard reported that McDonald looked at her, saying, “Shh” and continued to masturbate, according to the document.

    McDonald is awaiting trial on a capital murder charge in the shooting deaths of Justin Javier Gonzalez, 24, and Ulysses Gonzalez, 30, at the Pecan Tree Apartments, 2600 Grim Ave. The cousins each suffered multiple gunshot wounds.

    McDonald was also indicted in separate cases on charges of assault family violence, two counts of evading arrest in a vehicle, two counts of aggravated robbery and aggravated assault.

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    Grand jury indicts men in shooting deaths, robbery

    By Tommy Witherspoon
    Waco Tribune-Herald

    A Waco man charged in a 2014 double murder and a Temple man who police say was shot while trying to rob a Waco game room were indicted Wednesday.

    A McLennan County grand jury indicted Tony Olivarez, 32, on a capital murder charge in the May 2014 shooting deaths of two cousins at the Pecan Tree Apartments and Cedric Vidall Brown on an unrelated aggravated robbery charge in the February robbery of the Shisa Smoke Shop/Game Room at 639 N. Valley Mills Drive.

    Olivarez and Todric McDonald, 30, are co-defendants in the shooting deaths of Justin Javier Gonzalez, 24, and Ulysses Gonzalez, 30, at the Peach Tree Apartments in the 2600 block of Grim Avenue. The cousins died of multiple gunshot wounds, police said.

    Police identified McDonald and Olivarez as suspects, but did not publicly name Olivarez as a suspect until his arrest last month. McDonald was arrested shortly after the killings.

    Police say McDonald and Olivarez also were suspects in a shooting the 2300 block of Morrow Avenue hours before the shooting at Pecan Tree Apartments. The shooting on Morrow Avenue did not seriously injure anyone, but police began investigating the pair.

    Olivarez and McDonald were charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the Morrow Avenue shooting in May 2014. McDonald was indicted on the capital murder charge in August 2014.

    McDonald, 30, was arrested on multiple charges, including fleeing officers the week of the shootings. He remains in the McLennan County Jail. Jury selection for McDonald’s capital murder trial is to begin Oct. 10.

    Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty against McDonald. McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna did not return a phone message Wednesday seeking comment about how he intends to proceed in Olivarez’s case.

    Olivarez was arrested in May 2016 on a second-degree felony charge of aggravated assault, an unrelated burglary of a motor vehicle charge and an unrelated driving with an invalid license charge. He also remains in the McLennan County Jail.

    In other action, the grand jury also indicted Brown, who was shot by a store employee during the robbery.

    Police found Brown, 21, lying on the floor with gunshot wounds to the leg and shoulder. Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said store employees reported that Brown entered the store with a gun and threatened customers and employees while demanding cash.

    Swanton said an employee, “due to the suspect’s criminal behavior and placing others in fear of their lives,” shot the suspect.

    A pistol Brown is said to have brandished during the robbery was recovered at the store. It later was determined to be stolen, Swanton said.

    Swanton said there were multiple customers and employees in the store at the time of the robbery.

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    State still waiting for DNA in McDonald capital murder case

    By Tommy Witherspoon
    Waco Tribune-Herald

    Prosecutors still are waiting for the results of DNA testing to be returned in the capital murder case of a Waco man charged in the slayings of two cousins three years ago.

    Judge Ralph Strother of Waco’s 19th State District Court conducted a brief status conference Friday in the case of 30-year-old Todric Deon McDonald.

    McDonald and 32-year-old Tony Olivarez are co-defendants in the shooting deaths of Justin Javier Gonzalez, 24, and Ulysses Gonzalez, 30, at the Pecan Tree Apartments in the 2600 block of Grim Avenue. The cousins died of multiple gunshot wounds, police said.

    Police identified McDonald and Olivarez as suspects but did not publicly name Olivarez as a suspect until his arrest last month. McDonald was arrested shortly after the killings.

    Prosecutor Michael Jarrett told the judge that his office still is waiting for DNA tests to be returned in the cases of both men. Jury selection is set to start in McDonald’s case on Oct. 10. Prosecutors have said they intend to seek the death penalty.

    Police say McDonald and Olivarez also were suspects in a shooting the 2300 block of Morrow Avenue hours before the shooting at Pecan Tree Apartments. The shooting on Morrow Avenue did not seriously injure anyone, but police began investigating the pair.

    Olivarez and McDonald were charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the Morrow Avenue shooting in May 2014.

    McDonald was arrested on multiple charges, including fleeing officers the week of the shootings. He remains in the McLennan County Jail.

    Olivarez was arrested in May 2016 on a second-degree felony charge of aggravated assault, an unrelated burglary of a motor vehicle charge and an unrelated driving with an invalid license charge. He also remains in McLennan County Jail. No trial date is set in his capital murder case.

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    Trial of Waco man charged in deadly shooting delayed

    By Paul J. Gately
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    WACO, Texas - The capital murder trial of a Waco man accused of a shooting that left two cousins dead was delayed Friday to give defense attorneys more time to study the case.

    Judge Ralph Strother, in 19th District Court, removed an anticipated November trial date for Todric Deon McDonald, set another status hearing in 60 days and stopped short of setting a new trial date.

    McDonald is accused of acting with Tony Olivarez, 42, in connection with the May 13, 2014 murders of cousins Justin Gonzales and Ulysses Gonzales, prosecutors say.

    Olivarez, however, was only named a few weeks ago as a co-defendant in the case, in spite of the fact investigators considered him a suspect long before his indictment, Assistant District Attorney Michael Jarrett said Friday.

    But with the new co-defendant, a great deal of evidence must be processed and made available to defense lawyers so they can build their defense.

    Strother also mentioned upcoming Twin Peaks cases that could take precedence.

    Both McDonald and Olivarez remain in jail awaiting more court action.

    Police were sent at about 4:30 a.m. May 13, 2014 to an apartment at 2600 Grim, Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said.

    Officers first at the scene found two bodies inside one of the apartments.

    A subsequent autopsy revealed both men died from gunshot wounds.

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    2014 capital murder case delayed until next year

    By TOMMY WITHERSPOON
    The Waco Tribune-Herald

    Mary Rodriguez and Maria Gonzalez watched Todric Deon McDonald in court Friday afternoon, and their frustration and anger intensified.

    McDonald smiled, waved to his family and primped his hair, while appearing to be uncooperative with his attorneys. Rodriguez, Gonzalez and 15 other members from the families of Justin Javier Gonzalez and Ulysses Gonzalez watched from the other side of the courtroom.

    Mary Rodriguez is Justin Gonzalez’s mother. Maria Gonzalez is the mother of Ulysses Gonzalez. Their sons died from multiple gunshot wounds more than three years ago.

    McDonald, 30, is charged with capital murder in the May 2014 shooting deaths of the two cousins at the Pecan Tree Apartments in the 2600 block of Grim Avenue.

    A couple of trial dates for McDonald already have been postponed, and the family learned Friday during a status conference in McDonald’s case that it will be early fall 2018 or this time next year before McDonald’s trial will be held.

    Prosecutors have said they intend to seek the death penalty against McDonald if he is convicted in the double murder.

    “I feel sad that it is taking so long,” Mary Rodriguez said after the brief hearing. “Todric’s actions in court show he doesn’t care about anybody but himself and has no sympathy for our family.”

    Speaking in Spanish, Maria Gonzalez said McDonald’s antics make her concerned for her safety and that of her family.

    One reason the trial is being delayed again is because McDonald’s attorneys, John Donahue and Jon Evans, are involved in a capital murder trial in Bell County beginning in April.

    The other reason is the heavy burden the 154 Twin Peaks cases have placed on the county’s two criminal court dockets.

    “Capital murder cases in which the state is seeking the death penalty, as they are in this case, are always time consuming, and they are never going to trial quickly to protect the defendant, primarily, because it takes so much discovery in this matter,” 19th State District Judge Ralph Strother said. “Then we had the intervening case of all the Twin Peaks bikers cases.

    “Those cases, I think anybody who looks at the situation can tell, have consumed all the oxygen, or most of it, in the criminal justice system in this county, and we are struggling to try to move forward with all the cases. This one is just one of them.”

    Before the hearing ended Friday, Donahue asked Strother if he would intervene with the McLennan County Sheriff’s Office to see if McDonald could be moved from the segregation unit to general population because he said the lights are always on in segregation and it is “taking a toll on him.”

    Strother said he was reluctant to get involved in jail operations but said he would “look into it.”

    Jail officials filed an indecent exposure charge against McDonald in May 2016 after he reportedly called a female jailer to his cell and she reported he was standing there naked and masturbating.

    The capital murder case of McDonald’s co-defendant, Tony Olivarez, 32, was transferred to Waco’s 54th State District Court. A status conference in Olivarez’s case is set for Dec. 1, but no trial date has been set.

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    Judge sets trial date in 4-year-old capital murder case

    By Tommy Witherspoon
    Waco Tribune-Herald

    Todric Deon McDonald has been in jail for four years since his arrest in the shooting deaths of two cousins at the Pecan Tree Apartments.

    Multiple trial dates have been postponed over the years, and the victim's mothers, Mary Rodriguez and Maria Gonzalez, have grown increasingly frustrated with every delay.

    On Friday, 19th State District Judge Ralph Strother gave the mothers some good news. He set Feb. 11 as a trial date for McDonald in the May 2014 deaths of Justin Javier Gonzalez and Ulysses Gonzalez. Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty against the 31-year-old McDonald.

    "Thank Jesus," Mary Rodriguez, the mother of Justin Gonzalez, said after the brief status conference. "I feel good that it is finally coming to an end. It has taken so long. It has been frustrating. But we are glad and relieved that we finally have a trial set."

    Part of the delay in bringing McDonald to trial was because his attorneys, John Donahue and Jon Evans, have been involved in a capital murder trial in Bell County, which ended Thursday night.

    Another factor was the heavy burden the 154 indicted defendants in the Twin Peaks biker shootout case placed on the overall criminal justice system in the county. That was before McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna dismissed all but two dozen of the cases being handled locally. Special prosecutors appointed after Reyna recused his office are handling three pending Twin Peaks cases.

    Justin Gonzalez and Ulysses Gonzalez died from multiple gunshot wounds at the apartment complex in the 2600 block of Grim Avenue.

    Jail officials also filed an indecent exposure charge against McDonald in May 2016 after he reportedly called a female jailer to his cell and she reported he was standing there naked and masturbating.

    A status conference in the capital murder case of McDonald's co-defendant, Tony Olivarez, 33, is set for Aug. 17 in Waco's 54th State District Court. No trial date has been set in Olivarez's case.

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    State drops death penalty in McDonald case

    By TOMMY WITHERSPOON
    Waco Tribune-Herald

    After three years of holding a death sentence over Todric Deon McDonald’s head, prosecutors said Friday they will not seek the death penalty if McDonald is convicted in a 2014 double murder.

    Prosecutor Robert Moody told 19th State District Judge Ralph Strother at a status hearing Friday that family members of the victims are fine with the decision as long as there are no more delays in getting the capital murder case to trial.

    The family is more interested in seeing that the Feb. 10 trial date comes off as planned and was aware defense attorneys John Donahue and Jon Evans likely would have sought another delay had prosecutors continued to pursue the death penalty, Moody said.

    Evans and Donahue declined comment on the state’s decision after the brief hearing. Moody also declined comment.

    McDonald, 31, is charged in the May 2014 shooting deaths of cousins Justin Javier Gonzalez and Ulysses Gonzalez at the Pecan Tree Apartments, 2600 Grimm Ave. Both men died from multiple gunshot wounds. Prosecutors announced in May 2015 that they would seek the death penalty in the case.

    With the threat of the death penalty now removed, McDonald faces life in prison without parole if convicted.

    “That does simplify logistical issues at the very least,” Strother said of the decision.

    In death penalty cases, potential jurors are interviewed individually by prosecutors and defense attorneys, an arduous process that can take up to a month to complete.

    The victim’s mothers, Mary Rodriguez and Maria Gonzalez, and other family members have attended most of the pretrial hearings in McDonald’s case for the last couple of years. At the last hearing in June, at which Strother set the February trial date, Mary Rodriguez, mother of Justin Gonzalez, said, “Thank Jesus.”

    “I feel good that it is finally coming to an end,” she said. “It has taken so long. It has been frustrating. But we are glad and relieved that we finally have a trial set.”

    No family member of either victim attended Friday’s hearing.

    A status conference in the capital murder case of McDonald’s co-defendant, Tony Olivarez, 33, is set for Nov. 16 in Waco’s 54th State District Court. No trial date has been set in Olivarez’s case.

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