{"id":48628,"date":"2025-11-13T22:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/48628\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T22:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:50:09","slug":"prosecutors-waive-death-penalty-in-forest-hill-car-wash-ambush-killing-of-rapper-lil-ronnie-and-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/48628\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors waive death penalty in Forest Hill car wash ambush killing of rapper Lil Ronnie and daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tarrant County prosecutors won&#8217;t seek the death penalty against two men accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/two-killed-in-shooting-at-forest-hill-car-wash-authorities-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">killing Fort Worth rapper Lil Ronnie and his 5\u2011year\u2011old daughter<\/a> in a March ambush at Slappy&#8217;s Car Wash in Forest Hill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/texas-rangers-arrest-suspect-fatal-shooting-fort-worth-rapper-daughter\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Adonis Robinson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/second-suspect-in-custody-after-fatal-shooting-of-fort-worth-rapper-lil-ronnie-and-daughter-records-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jakobie Deshaun Russell<\/a>, both of Fort Worth, remain charged with capital murder and could face life in prison without parole if convicted, according to the District Attorney&#8217;s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors filed paperwork this week to formally waive the death penalty option.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators detail deadly car wash attack\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Investigators say the men approached 35\u2011year\u2011old Ronnie Sibley \u2013 known as Lil Ronnie \u2013 as he vacuumed his car and opened fire. His daughter, who had celebrated her fifth birthday just a day earlier, was in the passenger seat during the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred just before 11 a.m. March 3 on Forest Hill Drive, north of Interstate 20. An eyewitness said they heard 20 to 30 gunshots during the attack. The suspects fled in a white, four\u2011door Kia.<\/p>\n<p>Suspects arrested days after shooting\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Robinson was arrested by Texas Rangers in Livingston, Polk County, on March 6, while Russell surrendered to U.S. Marshals the next day. Both men are in their 20s.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/adonis.png#.png\" alt=\"adonis.png \" height=\"769\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Adonis Robinson of Fort Worth<\/p>\n<p>                Forest Hill Police Department<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/jakobie-russell.png#.png\" alt=\"jakobie-russell.png \" height=\"577\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Jakobie Russell of Fort Worth\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Tarrant County Jail<\/p>\n<p>  Car wash closes in aftermath\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0After the shooting, Slappy&#8217;s Car Wash announced a two\u2011day closure, calling themselves &#8220;shocked, appalled, and deeply troubled by the senseless and violent events.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scene marked by heavy police presence\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chopper video from CBS News Texas captured dozens of evidence markers scattered across the pavement and a heavy police presence surrounding the car wash. Officers from Fort Worth, Everman and Mansfield joined Forest Hill police at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Violent stretch for Forest Hill\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The March double homicide occurred during a violent stretch in Forest Hill, marking the city&#8217;s fourth and fifth killings of the year, after the police department reported zero homicides in all of 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tarrant County prosecutors won&#8217;t seek the death penalty against two men accused of killing Fort Worth rapper Lil&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,430,27],"class_list":["post-48628","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-north-texas","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48628","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=48628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}