FORMER NORTH TEXAS J.P. FOUND GUILTY IN D.A. WIFE’S MURDER
(Kaufman Co. mugshot)
A North Texas jury has convicted a former Justice of the Peace of capital murder in a revenge plot against a local district attorney, his wife and a top assistant.
Jurors found Eric Williams guilty Thursday afternoon of the murder of Cynthia McLelland, the wife of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland. Williams has also been charged with the deaths of Mike McLelland and assistant prosecutor Mark Hasse.
The McLellands' bodies were found riddled with gunshot wounds in their home in March 2013. Two months earlier, a masked gunman shot Hasse outside the local courthouse.
Authorities focused on Williams, who'd been disbarred after McLelland and Hasse prosecuted him for stealing county-owned computer monitors.
Williams could face the death penalty at sentencing.