the Galveston Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\nUriah Ulrick sits in a Texas court where he learned his fate Friday.<\/p>\n
In court, prosecutors argued Urick and his girlfriend Tara Lynn King, 17, began plotting her grandma\u2019s murder weeks before.<\/p>\n
The two planned to kidnap and then kill Tammy King after stealing $5,400 in cash, prescription pills, antique coins and guns from her home safe, text and Instagram messages shared in court showed.<\/p>\n
Before the killings, the couple sold their friends sob stories about the grandmother\u2019s alleged physical abuse and drug use, the Galveston Daily News reported.<\/p>\n
Ulrick\u2019s mugshot. Galveston County Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n
Witnesses testified in court the couple bragged about having money. <\/p>\n
One even said Urick told them he \u201ccouldn\u2019t get the smell of burning flesh out of his nose.\u201d<\/p>\n
In other messages, the two spoke of \u201cthe start of the rest of their lives\u201d and planned to \u201cKill her at 4\u201d with ammunition that would \u201cshred through skin.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tara King\u2019s mugshot. Galveston County Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n
Bill Agnew, Urick\u2019s defense attorney, argued the crime was not premeditated. He also claimed the state failed to prove the robbery was a motive for the murder.<\/p>\n
There is no start date yet for Tara King\u2019s impending capital murder trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A twisted Texas teen will spend the rest of his life behind bars for murdering his girlfriend\u2019s grandmother.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[815,294,25208,2349,14551,25209,27,29,28,9929,734],"class_list":["post-41552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-grandparents","tag-money","tag-murders","tag-teens","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-trials","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41552","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=41552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}