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struggle4progress

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Wed May 4, 2016, 08:52 AM May 2016

Jurors to decide sentence in Fort Worth caulk-gun homicide

MAY 3, 2016 8:03 PM
BY DEANNA BOYD

... he was 17 when he shot a 14-year-old girl in the face at a New Year’s Eve party in 1992 ...

Last year, it was 22-year-old Britney Eylar who was fatally injured when Opry threw a large caulk gun toward her as she prepared to leave his Fort Worth residence on the evening of New Year’s Day 2015 ...

Steve Lair, a Colleyville gang officer assigned to a national gang unit task force, testified that Opry is a documented Aryan Circle or “AC” gang member whom he believes was still active in the gang despite going through a prison gang renouncement program at age 35.

Lair said Opry had been a high-ranking member of the gang, was still affiliated with AC members and has AC and white supremacy-related tattoos covering his arms and chest ...


http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-worth/article75457702.html

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