A 50-year-old Minnesota man accused of stalking and killing his ex-girlfriend only minutes after she posted on Facebook about his disturbing behavior is facing additional charges after investigators say they have uncovered a series of inculpatory text messages he sent to the victim before her death.

David Eugene Wright is now facing additional counts of first-degree murder and first-degree murder while committing domestic abuse with a past pattern of domestic abuse in the fatal September shooting of 34-year-old Mariah Rosanna Samuels, authorities announced.

Both new counts carry mandatory sentences of life in prison, the Hennepin County Attorney's Office said in a news release announcing the latest charges.

"Mariah should be alive. She should be with her family, and my thoughts have bee

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