Rashonda Lowe pleaded guilty Wednesday to the murder of Jaime Rokkett, stunning the courtroom on the first day of the trial.<\/p>\n
The plea cam after Judge Jennifer Bennett asked Lowe, “How do you plea?”<\/p>\n
Lowe replied, “Guilty.”<\/p>\n
Lowe is accused of killing Rokkett, the owner of a cookie shop located inside the Shops at RedBird in Dallas.<\/p>\n
According to forensic investigators, Rokkett was shot at least seven times, including in the head, at his workplace on July 1, 2025.<\/p>\n
Lowe’s guilty plea means the jury will now determine Lowe’s punishment. She could face a sentence of up to life in prison.<\/p>\n
The first day of testimony was emotionally charged as prosecutors showed surveillance video from the day of the shooting.<\/p>\n
The video showed Lowe wearing a white shirt, baby blue shorts, and carrying a black purse. She was seen parking at the shopping center, walking into the Shops at RedBird, and approaching Rokkett’s cookie shop.<\/p>\n
The video shows that Lowe spent sevent minutes talking with Rokkett before walking back to her vehicle.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors told the jury Lowe spent about 35 seconds inside the vehicle before returning toward the shopping center and Rokkett’s workplace.<\/p>\n
The video showed Lowe and Rokkett continued to talk. Minutes later, prosecutors said Lowe then retrieved a gun from the black purse.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Lowe fired multiple times from only a few feet away. Surveillance video then showed Lowe jumping over the counter and continuing to shoot Rokkett.<\/p>\n
The defense, Steven LaFuente, questioned the prosecution’s characterization of the shooting, pointing to the gun’s safety mechanism and the fact that the surveillance video did not have audio.<\/p>\n
Day one of the trial also revealed more about the relationship between Lowe and Rokkett.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said Lowe and Rokkett had previously been involved in a relationship.<\/p>\n
The jury was shown numerous text messages and phone call logs between Lowe and Rokkett.<\/p>\n
One of the messages from Lowe to Rokkett read, “It seems like we don’t want the same things in the relationship.”<\/p>\n
Months before the murder, Lowe texted Rokkett, “I am seriously considering filing a civil suit for the last seven years of psychological abuse.”<\/p>\n
The messages, call logs, and voicemails, according to prosecutors, were deleted by both Rokkett and Lowe.<\/p>\n
Rokkett, however, was married at the time of the shooting to Samantha Rokkett.<\/p>\n
The couple married on August 31, 2019, after Rokkett proposed in December 2018.<\/p>\n
Rokkett testified that she first became aware of Lowe after Lowe contacted her through Facebook years before the murder.<\/p>\n
The jury was shown a screenshot of a message Lowe sent to Samantha, claiming she was dating Rokkett since 2018.<\/p>\n
Samantha told jurors the contact eventually escalated into repeated audio and video calls, as well as calls to her cell phone. A Ring doorbell camera also showed Lowe at the couple’s home.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors pointed out that Samantha made at least four police reports about what she described as continued harassment. The earliest police report dated back to September 2022.<\/p>\n
She described the calls from Lowe as becoming increasingly aggressive.<\/p>\n
“More back-to-back calls. More aggressive calls. Threats were becoming more clear,” Samantha testified.<\/p>\n
She said Lowe told her, “I know where you live. I see you changed your license plate.”<\/p>\n
Samantha also recalled the moment she learned her husband had been killed.<\/p>\n
She testified that her brother walked up to her crying before telling her what happened.<\/p>\n
“That’s when I realized it was actually Jaime,” she said.<\/p>\n
Rokkett’s body was found on the ground, behind the cookie counter. The gun was left on the counter before Lowe ran off to her vehicle and drove away.<\/p>\n
The jury is expected to continue hearing evidence Thursday as the trial moves forward.<\/p>\n
Lowe has pleaded guilty. The jury will ultimately decide how long she will spend behind bars for Rokkett’s murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rashonda Lowe pleaded guilty Wednesday to the murder of Jaime Rokkett, stunning the courtroom on the first day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-405048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405048","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=405048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}