A 31-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison for capital murder in the January 2024 killings of three people in Arlington, Texas. Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com/newsletters
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A 31-year-old man has been sentenced to life in a Texas prison for capital murder in the January 2024 killings of three people in Arlington.
Larry Dewayne Reed was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office said in a social media post on Monday.
Reed pleaded guilty on Friday, March 6, to the killings of Shannen Jones, 29; Monique Smith, 29; and Dreyon Glenn, 31. Prosecutors had planned to seek the death penalty if the case had gone to trial, according to court records.
Arlington triple homicide
Arlington police officers responded to the triple homicide at the Chatham Green Village apartment complex, in the 3500 block of Chatham Green Lane, the night of Jan. 25, 2024. They first found Jones, who had been shot outside an apartment and died at the scene, the Star-Telegram previously reported.
Officers entered the apartment to conduct an emergency sweep and found Smith, who also died at the scene from a gunshot wound to the neck.
Glenn was also found inside the apartment. He was shot multiple times. He died after being taken to a hospital.
Reed shot Glenn first and then continued to shoot at other people in the apartment, police wrote in an arrest warrant affidavit. The investigation found that Reed targeted Glenn because he was upset that Glenn spoke to the police about a prior homicide for which Reed was convicted, prosecutors wrote in a February 2024 motion when they asked a judge to hold the defendant without bond.
Reed was previously convicted of the June 2012 murder of 18-year-old Obeth Hernandez in a shooting outside a house party in the 1600 block of Geraldine Lane in Arlington. He was sentenced to 11 years after pleading guilty in 2014 and served about nine years before he was released from prison in December 2023.
About a month after his release, Reed was looking for revenge on witnesses from the first murder case, prosecutors alleged in court documents. “Witnesses in the investigation also indicated the defendant was planning on finding and killing more individuals who had spoken to detectives,” prosecutors wrote in the February 2024 bond motion.
Police have said young children also were inside the apartment during the shooting but were unharmed.
Convicted killer arrested in Mississippi
Following the triple shooting, Reed was arrested in Mississippi on Feb. 6, 2024, after he was found hiding in an attic near Greenville, police have said.
In the 2012 homicide case, investigators said that two young men, including an 18-year-old, got into a fight at a party. Their friends got involved, and the altercation spilled into the front yard. The 18-year-old handed his gun to Reed, who fired multiple shots, according to police records.
Hernandez was fatally shot in the chest. A 21-year-old was wounded but survived.
Reed and the 18-year-old were arrested and charged with murder, police records show. Reed, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, waived his right to a jury trial and was sentenced to 11 years.
While serving his sentence for the killing of Hernandez, Reed used a contraband cellphone to livestream video of himself beating up a cellmate in March 2021, authorities have said.
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Shambhavi covers crime, law enforcement and other breaking news in Fort Worth and Tarrant County. She graduated from the University of North Texas and previously covered a variety of general assignment topics in West Texas. She grew up in Nepal.