Edward Lagrone was executed by the State of Texas for a triple murder
According to court documents Edward Lagrone former girlfriend noticed that her ten year old daughter body was changing. Turns out she was pregnant and the mother would confront Lagrone who offered to pay for an abortion and give her $500. The mother would call the police
Edward Lagrone was let out on bail and would go back to the home where he would shoot and kill 76 year old Carolina Lloyd, then shot 83 year old Zenobia Lloyd and 10 year old Shakiesha Lloyd
Edward Lagrone would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Edward Lagrone would be executed by lethal injection on February 11 2004
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Edward Lagrone was executed on February 11 2004
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Maintaining his innocence, twice-convicted killer Edward Lagrone was executed Wednesday evening for a triple slaying in Fort Worth where one of the victims was a 10-year-old girl pregnant with his child. “I just want to say I am not sad or bitter with anybody,” Lagrone said in a brief final statement. “Like I’ve said from day one, I didn’t kill them. But I’m no better than the people that did.” He concluded by saying: “Jesus is Lord. That’s all I have to say.” Lagrone was pronounced dead at 6:18 p.m., seven minutes after the lethal drugs began flowing into the veins of his arms. Lagrone, 46, was the fifth Texas inmate executed this year. Another execution is set for tonight.
Evidence showed Shakeisha Lloyd was 17 weeks pregnant when Lagrone, who was released in 1984 after serving seven years of a 20-year prison term for murder, barged into her family’s home about 4 a.m. on May 30, 1991, and began shooting with a double-barreled pistol-grip shotgun he had a girlfriend buy for him one day earlier. Two of the girl’s great-aunts, Zenobia Anderson, 83, and Caolo Lloyd, 74, deaf, blind and bedridden with cancer, also were killed. An uncle was wounded.
“This is one of the uglier ones,” said Steve Conder, a Tarrant County assistant prosecutor handling responses to Lagrone’s appeals. “Just a cold-blooded murderer,” said David Montague, the district attorney who prosecuted the case. “DNA evidence immediately linked him to the fetus of the girl who was killed.” Authorities believed Lagrone was enraged because Shakeisha’s mother, Pamela Lloyd, wouldn’t drop a sexual assault complaint she filed against him for impregnating her daughter even though he offered to pay her and pay for an abortion. Lloyd once dated Lagrone.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon, acting on an appeal filed by Lagrone’s lawyers, refused to review his case and stop the punishment. Lagrone lived in Arlington and had worked as a cook but was known in Fort Worth’s Stop Six area as a drug dealer. He denied impregnating the girl, who completed the fourth grade the day before she was killed. DNA evidence, however, excluded 99.99 percent of other men as the father. Eight genetic tests could not exclude him, a DNA expert testified.
Pamela Lloyd testified that Shakeisha was concealing her 19-month-old sister behind some boxes and shouting at her mother to hide when she was shot. The woman fled to a closet.
Omar Anderson, Lagrone’s son, serving a life prison term for a 1992 murder, testified at his father’s trial that another man was responsible for the killings. Montague, however, said relatives who survived the shooting spree identified Lagrone. “We had a lock-tight case as far as we were concerned,” Montague said. During the punishment phase, two of Lagrone’s sisters testified that he had terrorized and sexually assaulted them at gunpoint in 1986.
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