Man Allegedly Posed as Minor Online to Meet Child Predator, Then Fatally Shot Him

[Polybius]

A Texas man is charged with murder after allegedly posing as a minor to meet and kill a convicted sex offender, according to authorities.

The Houston Police Department alleges that in May 2023, James Spencer III, 22, shot and killed victim Sean Connery Showers, 37.

Police claim Showers approached a vehicle in the early morning hours of May 29 and then was shot by the suspect, who at the time was unidentified. Upon further investigation, police arrested Spencer, who they claim admitted to the killing.

Showers pleaded guilty to possessing child sex abuse material in 2009, federal authorities said at the time, ABC 13 reports. Showers was sentenced to 30 months in prison and then to two years in 2019 for failing to register as a sex offender, per the outlet.

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[Chainfire]

1. Is that against the law in Texas?

[Phoenix61]

2. How incredibly tragic. All the wonderful things that

young man would have experienced in his life will never happen.

[Polybius]

3. It'll be interesting to see what punishment he gets

1st degree murder?

[Johnny2X2X]

4. Awful

Predators need to be caught and dealt with by the law, but this type of vigilantism is wrong.

There was a guy here in Michigan/Indiana who was trying to catch predators and he was so sloppy that none of his evidence could be used by police, so predators got away. Eventually one o his targets murdered him.

He was doing it for the Youtube follows. One of his targets ended up being a cerebral palsy sufferer who was an analyst for the University of Michigan Football program. Met him at a liquor store under the guise that he was a 14 year old teen girl looking to party and drink. The target was 20 years old and because of his palsy couldn't walk or speak correctly and it was the saddest sight you've ever seen. Just a lonely disabled college student who had made a horrible mistake. No chargers could be filed in that either.

[redqueen]

6. Preying on children is not a "mistake" nt

[Polybius]

8. Do you have a link to his YouTube Channel?

Would love to see it.

[redqueen]

5. I doubt this is the last of this kind of incident we'll see.

And if a jury goes with nullification for this type of crime I doubt many will have an issue with it.

Somehow predators are often allowed to get out and hurt more people so it's a problem that needs to be addressed.

[Prairie Gates]

7. Hard Candy vibes

[Oneironaut]

9. So it happened...

I’m just speculating, but, there’s been a clout war of “predator catchers” on TikTok who keep trying to one-up each other in terms of brutality.

Not sure if that happened here, but; I wouldn’t be surprised.

Edit - and, if your reaction is, “good!” to this, I assure you it isn’t. All it does it make it so the police can’t prosecute the predator, and, helps the predator to learn from their mistake, possibly causing another child to be raped or killed.

This is the police’s job. Vigilantes just fuck things up. I’ve seen it myself.