Bone Crushing Gorillas<\/a>. Irick was gunned down as he sat in a three-wheeled Slingshot after he was followed to the east side of Fort Worth after leaving Varsity, a since-closed night club in the city\u2019s West 7th district.<\/p>\nDetectives have not arrested a suspect in the killing but they believe YTN members are responsible for Irick\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
In a retaliation effort Wright and another man, Ivan Powe, leaned from the windows of a black Chevy Impala and fired pistols into a field on East Robert Street, near Riverside Drive.<\/p>\n
Cortney Guy was standing in the dirt lot next to Davontay Guzman, a documented YTN member, when Guy was shot to death. Guy was not a documented gang member, although he had a felony drug sales conviction.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s on Dub,\u201d Jaquan Wright said just after shooting, kissing a pendant on his neck and refering to his brother, according to the account that the Impala\u2019s driver, Jerome Hall, gave to the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
The pendant anecdote, however, was delivered to the jury by district attorney\u2019s office investigator Steve Groppi, who recalled discussions with Hall in which he recounted Jaquan Wright\u2019s participation in the Guy shooting. When the state called him to the witness stand, Hall largely denied sharing information about Jaquan Wright in meetings with prosecutors, committing perjury in the state\u2019s view.<\/p>\n
The jury was instructed on the law of parties that holds a person criminally responsible for the conduct of another person if the defendant solicits, encourages, directs or aids the other person to commit an offense. There were two shooters in the Guy and Fields homicides.<\/p>\n
Within 10 minutes of Judge Amy Allin reading the jury\u2019s guilty verdict on both counts in the trial\u2019s guilt-innocence phase, a fight erupted in the hallway outside. With a witness on the stand during a hearing outside the presence of the jury, people connected to Wright rushed from gallery benches to the hall, dozens of sheriff\u2019s office deputies scrambled to the fifth floor and the judge left the bench.<\/p>\n
As the courtroom was cleared, observers walked past a woman\u2019s wig on the floor at the vestibule door. Deputies arrested two men and one woman on suspicion of disorderly conduct and interfering with a court proceeding.<\/p>\n
From its location away from the courtroom, the jury heard a commotion. Judge Allin denied defense attorney Warren St. John\u2019s motion for a mistrial.<\/p>\n
After the hall fight, jurors asked deputies to escort them to their vehicles for the remainder of the trial. Other than his mother, people connected to Wright were barred from returning.<\/p>\n
On Friday, after learning in the trial\u2019s punishment phase of Jaquan Wright\u2019s involvement in the Fields homicide, which prosecutors presented to the jury as an extraneous offense, the jury assessed his punishment at two life prison terms. Wright, 20, will serve the terms at the same time. He will become eligible for parole after serving 30 years of the sentence. Before it began to deliberate, Judge Allin instructed the jury in the 297th District Court to consider terms of 15 to 99 years, or life, and five to 99 years, or life.<\/p>\n
Assistant District Attorney Danielle Wojciak had earlier in the trial asked McAnulty, the gang intelligence officer, to characterize the acts of Jaquan Wright. The prosecutor argued that evidence showed Wright arrived at the East Robert Street field to hunt for rivals and exact revenge.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s as gang as it gets,\u201d McAnulty testified.<\/p>\n
Wojciak represented the state at the trial with Assistant District Attorney Katie Owens.<\/p>\n
Defense attorney St. John argued in his guilt-innocence closing argument that Wright simply had nothing to do with Guy\u2019s death. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t in the car.\u201d<\/p>\n
Surveillance images show two lowered Impala windows but not the features of the people inside.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou cannot see who\u2019s in the back seat,\u201d St. John told the jury.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere\u2019s the DNA?\u201d St. John asked in his closing. \u201cNone. Where are the prints?\u201d<\/p>\n
Wright chose not to testify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retaliatory homicides of gang adversaries have spasmed for six years in Fort Worth, at times creating a sorrowful…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,2238,22910,97226,97227,97228],"class_list":["post-259292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-police-department","tag-gang-member","tag-jaquan-wright","tag-javien-wright","tag-wright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259292","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=259292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}