{"id":1367022,"date":"2024-11-04T14:41:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T20:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1367022"},"modified":"2024-11-06T05:08:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T11:08:55","slug":"kilgore-man-sentenced-for-2015-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1367022","title":{"rendered":"Kilgore man sentenced for 2015 murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

GREGG COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \"\"Our news partners at KETK report that nearly a decade after the shooting that led to John Allen Franco\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death, a Kilgore man has been sentenced. According to arrest documents, the shooting stemmed from a threat to show nude photos. In 2017, a person allegedly told Gregg County investigator that Jessie Brown hunted down Franco because of a threat Franco made to show nude photos of Brown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s relative. That interview gave police enough information to charge Brown with the 2015 murder.<\/p>\n

Brown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arrest documents include details of what happened the night of the shooting and how authorities came to the conclusion that Brown was responsible.<\/p>\n

At around 10 p.m. on May 20, 2015, deputies were called to a road in Liberty City where Franco\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s car was found in a ravine occupied with his toddler daughter and a woman. First responders first thought it was a one-vehicle wreck until a gunshot wound to Franco\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head was discovered.<\/p>\n

Franco was declared dead at the scene and the woman told authorities that when Franco stopped at the intersection of Old Highway 135 and Smallwood Road a man got out of a truck that had previously been following them and ran up to Francos window with a gun.<\/p>\n

The woman told police \u00e2\u20ac\u0153she was uncertain about what occurred but that she believed Franco reversed his vehicle really fast and that something caused the driver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s side window to break,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to the warrant.<\/p>\n

Although investigators did many interviews after the shooting, the warrant said the Gregg County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office did not receive any more leads until years later. In August of 2017, a person who wanted to remain anonymous contacted authorities with names of people responsible for Franco\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death which included Brown and two other men.
\nUPDATE: 3 dead, 4 injured after Morris County crash<\/p>\n

That October, an investigator reached one of the men named who said that Brown had asked him to go riding with him and the other man the night of the shooting. The man said that Brown \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wanted to assault Franco because Franco had threatened to show nude photos of [Brown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s relative],\u00e2\u20ac\u009d who Franco used to date, the warrant said.<\/p>\n

On Oct. 17, 2017 an arrest warrant for murder was issued for Brown and he was booked into the Gregg County Jail.<\/p>\n

On Nov. 1, seven years later, Brown entered a nonguilty plea but was convicted for the murder and sentenced to 40 years in prison. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GREGG COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Our news partners at KETK report that nearly a decade after the shooting that led to John Allen Franco\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death, a Kilgore man has been sentenced. According to arrest documents, the shooting stemmed from a threat to show nude photos. In 2017, a person allegedly told Gregg County investigator that Jessie Brown … Continue reading Kilgore man sentenced for 2015 murder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1367027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/11\/Jessie-Brown-1-e1730752828626-204x200.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 08:18:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/11\/Jessie-Brown-1-e1730752828626-204x200.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1367022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367026,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367022\/revisions\/1367026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1367027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1367022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1367022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1367022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}