{"id":386719,"date":"2025-11-18T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/386719\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T04:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:00:18","slug":"houston-murder-suspect-jailed-4-years-could-plead-guilty-possibly-be-free-in-6-more-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/386719\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston murder suspect jailed 4+ years could plead guilty, possibly be free in 6 more years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/C1BD9E78DAF9F0C9B7F4C69DC36CC6BE.jpg\" alt=\"Jailed murder defendant could plead guilty, be free in just 6 more years\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> &#8211; A 21-year-old murder defendant who\u2019s been in jail for more than four years is expected to plead guilty and could possibly be free after serving just six more years behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>   25-year-old man killed in 2019 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">On Dec. 1, 2019, Terry Tondre lost her 25-year-old son, Keith Tondre Hardy.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t ever think it cannot happen to you because it can happen in the blink of an eye,&#8221; said Terry.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Police say Jeremiah Brown shot and killed Keith during a robbery.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;This is a really bad dude,&#8221; said Andy Kahan with Crime Stoppers. &#8220;He deserves to be locked away for a long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Brown&#8217;s disturbing juvenile record was recently made public.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;He was 12 years old when he was charged and adjudicated in the juvenile system with injury to the elderly,&#8221; Kahan said. &#8220;Four pretty heavy offenses, most of them involving violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Suspect jailed for 4+ years <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">263rd Judge Melissa Morris lowered Brown&#8217;s bond to $35,000, but he remains behind bars, racking up time served.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Family and friends of Brown only need to scrape together $3,500 to bond him out of jail. For whatever reason, they&#8217;ve chosen not to do that.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Terry says she&#8217;s had more assistant DAs on the case than she can count.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">She says the most recent one told her Brown agreed to 15 years to plead guilty, but with time served, he could be paroled in just six years.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;It makes me worry, if he gets out, where is his next victim? It&#8217;s not will he do this, it&#8217;s who will be his next victim,&#8221; said Keith&#8217;s sister Brandilyn Pennington. &#8220;It&#8217;s not justice in any shape, form or fashion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">In a statement, the DA&#8217;s office said, &#8220;as with all pending investigations, we do not discuss details of the case. \u00a0Our focus is&#8211;and will continue to be&#8211;pursuing the appropriate and just outcome based on the evidence and the law. \u00a0This is our responsibility to Harris County.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this article comes from an interview with Terry Tondre and court records.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/series\/breaking-bond\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breaking Bond<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; A 21-year-old murder defendant who\u2019s been in jail for more than four years is expected to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":386720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[146981,6082,6386,4345,50,6166,358,3187,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-386719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-breaking-bond","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-harris-county","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-series","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115568707545862005","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}