{"id":138975,"date":"2011-11-04T11:41:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T16:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=138975"},"modified":"2011-11-06T07:45:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T13:45:14","slug":"longview-man-sentenced-to-life-for-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=138975","title":{"rendered":"Longview Man Sentenced to Life for Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=138976\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-138976\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/11\/stiff-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"stiff\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-138976\" \/><\/a>GREGG COUNTY &#8212; After nearly six hours of deliberations, a 10 woman, 2 man jury in Gregg County found Carlos Pierre Stiff, 22, guilty of capital murder in the 2006 stabbing and beating death of Alton Hicks, 75.  Stiff was handed an immediate life sentence. Prosecutors elected not to seek the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>The bllind, diabetic man was found in his apartment Aug. 17, 2006, bludgeoned to death. He had been stabbed 56 times by at least three different blades, with wounds to his eyes, genitals, face, back, head and chest, Gregg County Assistant District Attorney Jenny Huckle said, describing it as &#8220;a very brutal crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His mother, Lasinda Crockett, accepted a 20-year prison sentence under a plea agreement with prosecutors in May. Crockett had been Hicks&#8217; home health provider for a few weeks prior to his death, Huckle said. Crockett and a friend, Patricia Jacobs, began stealing money from Hicks &#8211; he kept his cash, weapons and prescription drugs in a locked hallway closet &#8211; and taking the money to Shreveport casinos. After Hicks confronted Crockett and Jacobs, they got a man to pretend to be a police officer and take a report from Hicks, Huckle said. Once Hicks realized the fraud, he made an actual report with Longview police a few days before his death.<\/p>\n<p>Huckle added that Stiff took $2,000 from Hicks&#8217; wallet and used the money to buy shoes, clothes and a new grill for his teeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREGG COUNTY &#8212; After nearly six hours of deliberations, a 10 woman, 2 man jury in Gregg County found Carlos Pierre Stiff, 22, guilty of capital murder in the 2006 stabbing and beating death of Alton Hicks, 75. Stiff was handed an immediate life sentence. Prosecutors elected not to seek the death penalty. The bllind, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=138975\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview Man Sentenced to Life for Murder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 09:38:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138975","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138975"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139386,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138975\/revisions\/139386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}