Christopher Karon Turner, 48, was arrested in April 2020, several days after authorities said he entered the Super Big Country Mart in unincorporated Tarrant...
Christopher Karon Turner, 48, was arrested in April 2020, several days after authorities said he entered the Super Big Country Mart in unincorporated Tarrant County and robbed the store, killing owner Anwar Ali, 62, in the process, a press release from the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office said.In the morning of March 27, 2020, Turner, a convicted felon, walked into the store wearing a mask and pulled a gun on Ali.
Turner fled the store in Ali’s minivan, where he found another $50,000 in a black bag. Authorities said Turner then went on a spending spree, buying cars, jewelry, drugs, clothes and more before fleeing to Colorado.He was later arrested by the U.S. Marshals and was found in possession of the murder weapon.
During the trial, prosecutors said Turner attempted to hold up a sign to the jury as prosecutors asked the jury to deliver justice to Ali’s family. Turner also reportedly obtained the names and phone numbers of jurors and gave them to another inmate charged with murder, authorities said. Ali was a Pakistani immigrant who came to the United States to pursue the American Dream, prosecutors said, before his life was taken “for greed, for absolute lack of respect for human life.Dallas doctor ordered to serve 190 years in federal prison for tampering with IV bagsMatt is a breaking news reporter. A graduate of Baylor University, he grew up in San Antonio and lived in Waco before coming to Dallas. Previously, Matt has written for the Baylor Lariat and the Waco Tribune-Herald.
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