A man has been convicted of killing six members of his ex-wife's family in suburban Houston. Jurors rejected Ronald Lee Haskell's insanity defense in the 2014 slayings.
FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2019, file photo, Ronald Haskell, center, appears in Judge George Powell's courtroom for his capital murder trial in Houston. A jury has convicted Haskell of capital murder for fatally shooting six members of his ex-wife's family in Texas. Jurors on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019, rejected Ronald Lee Haskell's insanity defense.
HOUSTON — A man accused of fatally shooting six members of his ex-wife’s family, including four children, in an act of vengeance is guilty of capital murder, a jury in Houston decided Thursday. Jurors will next hear evidence in the trial’s punishment phase before deciding whether to sentence Haskell, 39, to life in prison or death.and had plotted to hurt anybody who helped his ex-wife, Melannie Lyon, after she left him. Lyon testified that Haskell physically abused her and their children, so she moved them all from Utah to Texas to be with her family after the divorce.
Cassidy Stay, who was 15 at the time of the shooting, was shot in the head but survived by playing dead.her uncle “please don’t hurt us,” but that Haskell forced the whole family to lie face down on the living room floor before shooting them one by one.
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