Summary of Offense:
Arthur Brown was convicted of the execution-style slaying of four people inside a Houston residence in 1992. Brown and two accomplices entered the home of Jose Tovar and tied him and five others with bed sheets and placed each in seperate rooms. He and co-defendant Marion Dudley then shot each in the back of the head. Killed were Tovar, Jessica Quinones, Tovar's 19-year-old daughter-in-law who was seven months pregnant and Audrey Brown, a neighbor of Tovar. Two others survived. Police said Brown had been buying drugs from Tovar and his wife and that the shootings were related to their transactions. Brown was arrested four months later in possession of a loaded 9mm pistol.
Brown was sentenced to death in Harris County in June 1994.
Co-defendant Tony Dunson was sentenced to life in prison.
Co-defendant Marion Dudley was sentenced to death and eventually executed on January 25, 2006. For more on Dudley, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...anuary-25-2006
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