FORNEY, Texas — A Kaufman County jury has convicted a man of murder in the February 2024 shooting death of a North Texas man .

The jury returned a guilty verdict against 26-year-old Deaundre Bernard Walker after a three-day trial, the Kaufman County District Attorney's Office announced Friday. Judge Shelton Gibbs issued the life sentence against Walker after a hearing where the state presented evidence of his prior prison sentence in Florida for drug and firearm possession.

“I do not bring people into court. People’s actions bring them before me," Gibbs told Walker. "The reason that you are here is because of the choices that you made. You cannot move past this moment in life until you appreciate that you are the result of your own choices.”

Kaufman County District Attorney Erleigh Wi

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