{"id":266074,"date":"2026-04-25T17:21:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T17:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266074\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T17:21:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T17:21:26","slug":"houston-crime-man-sentenced-to-30-years-after-being-found-guilty-of-murdering-his-ex-girlfriend-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266074\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston crime: Man sentenced to 30 years after being found guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; One man has learned his sentence after being found guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend, according to court documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Houston crime: Man sentenced to 30 years behind bars in connection with 2024 murder\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Algie Mac Washington was sentenced to 30 years behind bars on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Algie-Washington.jpg\" alt=\"Algie Washington\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Washington was charged with murder after his ex-girlfriend, 23-year-old Jaynice Ferguson, was found shot to death in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">According to police, Ferguson was found at 3401 Dunvale Street, unresponsive with at least one gunshot wound by police who were responding to a shooting call.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">She was taken to Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center where she was pronounced dead, officials say.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Authorities report detectives pursued leads and believed Washington was a person of interest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Court records<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; One man has learned his sentence after being found guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,2053],"class_list":{"0":"post-266074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266074","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=266074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}