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Rickey Wayne Edwards was charged with capital murder in the May 2020 double homicide. Life in prison without parole is the automatic sentence for such a charge.The day of the shooting, Edwards and his wife, Portia Williams-Edwards, 46, were moving into their new home on Monet Lane in Grand Prairie.
Kitchen went to the couple’s house and was involved in a confrontation with Edwards before Edwards used a Glock pistol to shoot his stepson 10 times and his wife twice in the head, the DA release says.that began Tuesday, arguing that he acted in self-defense. The jury took roughly 14 minutes to deliberate, according to the“This was not self-defense as the defendant claims,” one of the prosecutors told the jury. “The evidence shows beyond a reasonable doubt that he executed Kameion and Portia.
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