The Brief<\/p>\n
24-year-old Anthony Bell-Johnson was found guilty of capital murder and given two life sentences for his role in a 2022 double homicide in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n
In Aug. 2022, Bell-Johnson and several acquaintances shot and killed 17-year-old Jamarrien Monroe and 5-year-old Rayshard Scott. An 18-month-old was also injured in the shooting.<\/p>\n
One of Bell-Johnson’s accomplices, Jay Shawn Nixon-Clark, was found guilty of capital murder in Jan. 2025, and sentenced to life in prison. Nixon-Clark was 16 at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n
FORT WORTH, Texas – A man involved in a 2022 Fort Worth shooting was sentenced to two life sentences in prison by a Tarrant County jury.<\/p>\n
Sentencing in 2022 murder case<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
24-year-old Anthony Bell-Johnson has been found guilty of capital murder by a Tarrant County Jury, and was given two life sentences for his role in a 2022 double homicide. He was also sentenced to pay $20,000 in fines.<\/p>\n
In September 2022, Bell-Johnson, along with several acquaintances, entered a house on Steel Dust Drive in Fort Worth wearing black masks, firing multiple shots at residents playing in an open garage before fleeing the scene in a vehicle.<\/p>\n
17-year-old Jamerrien Monroe and 5-year-old Rayshard Scott were killed in the shooting. Monroe’s 18-month-old son was also injured.<\/p>\n
Police say Bell-Johnson fired his weapon at least 16 times. They later found the keys to the getaway vehicle in Bell-Johnson’s pocket, leading to his arrest.<\/p>\n
What they’re saying<\/p>\n
Tarrant County assistant district attorneys Bill Vassar and Melina Hogan prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n
“He absolutely knew what he was doing,” Vassar told the jury. “This family has been waiting for justice for 3 \u00bd years. Let’s give them some justice.”<\/p>\n
The backstory<\/p>\n
Previously, Jay Shawn Nixon-Clark was found guilty of capital murder in Jan. 2025 and automatically sentenced to life in prison for his role in the shooting.<\/p>\n
Nixon-Clark was 16-years-old at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
Information in this story came from the Tarrant County Distric Attorney’s Office and previous FOX 4 reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief 24-year-old Anthony Bell-Johnson was found guilty of capital murder and given two life sentences for his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65018,65016,65019,6885,64095,116,118,117,2238,65020,65017,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-158014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-anthony-bell-johnson","9":"tag-anthony-ray-bell-johnson","10":"tag-bell-johnson","11":"tag-capital-murder","12":"tag-double-homicide","13":"tag-fort-worth","14":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","15":"tag-fort-worth-news","16":"tag-fort-worth-police-department","17":"tag-jamarrien-monroe","18":"tag-jay-shawn-nixon-clark","19":"tag-tarrant-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}