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    Burnches Marskish Mitchell Sentenced to LWOP in 2017 TX Slaying of Khrystophir Scott




    Death penalty to be sought in TCU-area strangulation, two other cases

    BY MITCH MITCHELL
    The Fort Worth Star-Telegram

    FORT WORTH - Three men — including the suspect in the strangulation of a 22-year-old woman near TCU in April — will face possible death sentences if they are convicted of the crimes they are accused of committing, according to the Tarrant County district attorney’s office.

    The office will seek the death penalty against Reginald Gerald Kimbro, James Earnest Floyd Jr. and Burnches Marskish Mitchell, said Samantha Jordan, spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office.

    District Attorney Sharen Wilson has sought the death penalty in only one other case since she took office in January 2015. That was the case of Rodolfo Arellano, 34, who is accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Pule Arellano and tying a rope that was attached to concrete around her neck and throwing her off the Lake Worth bridge in April 2016.

    Rodolfo was in the Tarrant County Jail on Thursday with bail set at $500,000. A trial date is pending for Rodolfo; trial dates have not been set in the three other cases.

    Kimbro is charged with capital murder in connection with the April 10 strangulation of Molly Matheson, a 22-year-old woman found dead in her apartment near TCU on April 10. Matheson graduated from Keller Timber Creek High School and had attended the University of Arkansas until 2015.

    Kimbro said Matheson had texted him on the night of April 9, asking if he wanted to hang out, according to police. He said he went to her residence, an unattached apartment behind a home in the 2600 block of Waits Avenue, and that they eventually started making out.

    Kimbro told investigators he was going to have sex with Matheson but she declined, citing her boyfriend. He said he left about 1:30 a.m. April 10 and drove to Arkansas.

    Kimbro is also suspected of raping and killing Megan Leigh Getrum, a 36-year-old Plano woman whose body was found April 19 at Lake Ray Hubbard. Getrum had not been seen or heard from since the evening of April 14, when she went for a walk at the Arbor Hills Nature Preserve in Plano.

    Detectives also learned that Kimbro was a suspect in two sexual assaults in which the victims reported being choked — one in September 2012 in Plano and the other on South Padre Island in March 2014.

    According to Kimbro’s arrest warrant affidavit in the Plano case, he was not charged in the 2012 rape accusation because “there came a point during the investigation in which [the victim] no longer wished to pursue the case.”

    The victim now wants to pursue charges, the affidavit said, and police are investigating.

    Kimbro was in the Tarrant County Jail on Thursday, with bail totaling nearly $2.4 million.

    In a statement, Matheson’s family thanked the district attorney’s office for its “commitment to bringing [Kimbro] to justice.”

    “Sadly, had the jurisdictions responsible for allowing him to walk free for other previous sexual assaults in Plano and South Padre, we would not be discussing this today,” the statement said.

    Floyd is accused of beating John Porter with a metal table during a home invasion March 28 in Fort Worth, demanding his wallet and shooting him in the head.

    Authorities said Floyd also shot Porter’s wife, Diane, in the stomach and tried to tie her hands with an alarm clock’s power cord, she told police in an interview at John Peter Smith Hospital.

    As she lay bleeding on the floor, she said, Floyd demanded her bank card and personal identification number and shot at her head.

    Floyd left the couple’s home in their Kia Sorento SUV, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. He was in the Dallas County Jail on Thursday in an unrelated kidnapping case with bail totaling $700,000.

    Mitchell is accused in the slaying of Khrystophir Scott, 27, at a White Settlement convenience store on Jan. 27. Scott was a customer at the Quick Sak store, at 898 S. Cherry Lane, when two men entered the store and demanded that everyone get on the ground. A struggle ensued and Scott was shot.

    Mitchell was in the Tarrant County Jail on Thursday with bail totaling nearly $1.5 million.

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    Burnches Mitchell Found Guilty of Capital Murder

    Mitchell is charged with Capital Murder for the shooting death of Khrystophir Scott, a customer in a convenience store robbed by Mitchell. Mitchell is also charged with more than a dozen other Aggravated Robberies in the area.

    "He intended to kill everyone in every one of those stores. He was terrorizing those customers ... any one of us could have been one of those people."

    "He has shown us what he is willing and ready to do. He has shown us how much our lives are worth to him."DJ Estes, prosecutor Closing arguments, State v. Burnches Mitchell

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    Teen killer who killed again as an adult sentenced to life in prison
    BY MITCH MITCHELL NOVEMBER 12, 2019 05:09 PM

    After deliberating since Monday, a Tarrant County jury sentenced a man who started killing when he was 13 to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

    Jurors listened to evidence in the capital murder case of Burnches Markish Mitchell, 26, for more than three weeks in the courtroom of State District Judge Scott Wisch before reaching their decision Tuesday afternoon.

    Tarrant County prosecutors presented evidence during the trial showing that Mitchell has a long criminal history and is a suspect in at least a dozen other aggravated robberies in North Texas.

    Jurors concluded that in one of his last aggravated robbery attempts, Mitchell shot and killed Khrystophir Scott, 27, who died days after the Jan. 27, 2017, robbery from a gunshot wound to the neck, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office.

    Scott was a customer in the Quik Sak store at 898 S. Cherry Lane in White Settlement when two men entered the store and demanded that everyone get on the ground, according to police.

    Scott refused to get down and was shot. Scott was then taken to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, where he died.

    Jurors also learned that, as a juvenile, Mitchell stabbed James Fields to death on Aug. 12, 2006. Mitchell, then 13 years old, was found to be involved in delinquent behavior and was sentenced to 10 years’ confinement with the Texas Youth Commission.

    Mitchell grew up in a broken home surrounded by violence, alcohol and drug abuse, according to Fred Cummings and Brett Boone, the attorneys who represented him.

    Mitchell’s mother told authorities that her son stabbed the man she was living with in order to protect her from being abused. Mitchell also suffers from an anti-social personality disorder for which he has been prescribed medication, according to his attorneys.

    “Not all murderers need to be executed,” Boone told the jury. “When you grow up in a war zone, it changes the way you think. Burnches is going to die in the penitentiary — we just ask you to let God decide when.”

    But prosecutors, who were seeking the death penalty, pointed out that as Mitchell aged, he became worse. Mitchell is likable — he has the gift of gab, said David Alex, Tarrant County prosecutor. But that only makes him more dangerous, Alex added.

    Mitchell terrorized dozens of people during a crime spree that stretched across North Texas. A bad childhood should not mitigate the number of criminal acts that have been presented to the jury, Alex said.

    “The defendant knows what he’s done and he knows that he will never change,” Alex said. “Time cannot fix Burnches Mitchell.”


    According to a court document filed in October:

    Mitchell was identified as a gang member and adjudicated delinquent for assaulting a public servant on Jan. 15, 2010.

    Mitchell was transferred to adult prison but released on parole on Feb. 13, 2013, and was discharged from parole on Nov. 7, 2016.

    After his release, Mitchell was implicated in several armed robberies.

    Mitchell was convicted of aggravated assault against a public servant in Hunt County, Texas, on May 30, 2017, and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

    Another Tarrant County jury is expected to deliberate in another death penalty trial this week in the case of Hector Acosta, who was found guilty Nov. 5 of killing his roommate Erick “Diablo” Zelaya in Arlington in 2017, then beheading him. Acosta also killed his roommate’s girlfriend, Iris Chirinos, at an Arlington home

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    I will never understand this kind of thing. We have another Markeith Loyd, we have a guy who started killing at 13, got in and out of prison, had been involved in multiple violent crimes and armed robberies and killed again. Give him some years, and he will murder a fellow inmate or a correctional officer. How can jurors not understand that people like this one are the personification of future dangerousness? Punishment phase needs to be reformed as soon as possible.

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    Do we know what the vote was?

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    Any woman stupid enough to name her child Burnches Marskish should lose her parental rights. If that baby had been adopted by a couple who gave him a non-embarrassing, non-stigmatizing name, I wonder how he would have turned out?

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