{"id":349868,"date":"2015-05-02T08:21:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T13:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=349868"},"modified":"2015-05-04T10:50:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T15:50:45","slug":"longview-man-gets-life-sentence-for-2012-capital-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=349868","title":{"rendered":"Longview Man Gets Life Sentence for 2012 Capital Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/murdersentenced_1430527374515_282409_ver1.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/murdersentenced_1430527374515_282409_ver1.0-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"murdersentenced_1430527374515_282409_ver1.0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-349869\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212; 25-year-old Brendan Douglas was sentenced by Judge Alfonso Charles to life in prison without parole Friday after a Gregg County jury found him guilty of capital murder.  KETK and the Longview News-Journal report the case involves the May 15, 2012, death of Douglas&#8217;s friend, 23-year-old DeAundray Rossum, at Signal Hill Apartments in Longview.   Douglas was accused of plotting to kill and rob Rossum; brothers Torry and Deion Reed also are charged in Rossum\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death and are accused of firing the guns that \u00e2\u20ac\u201d under Douglas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s orders \u00e2\u20ac\u201d killed Rossum. The Reed brothers have not been to trial. <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Douglas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lead defense attorney, Kevin Settle, argued in his closing statement that the case was a drug deal gone wrong that resulted in Rossum\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death.  Settle implored the jury to consider a lesser charge, such as felony murder \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which would have carried a sentence of up to life in prison but with the possibility of parole.  Assistant District Attorney Stacey Brownlee said in her closing statement the fact that Rossum was a drug dealer should have no bearing on the jury\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision in a case related to him being murdered. Brownlee said Rossum lost his life at the hands of a plan behind which Douglas was the mastermind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; 25-year-old Brendan Douglas was sentenced by Judge Alfonso Charles to life in prison without parole Friday after a Gregg County jury found him guilty of capital murder. KETK and the Longview News-Journal report the case involves the May 15, 2012, death of Douglas&#8217;s friend, 23-year-old DeAundray Rossum, at Signal Hill Apartments in Longview. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=349868\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview Man Gets Life Sentence for 2012 Capital Murder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":349869,"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-349868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 04:49:53","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\/349868","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=349868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349872,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349868\/revisions\/349872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/349869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}