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FORT WORTH, Texas<\/strong> – The man who shot a Tarrant County sheriff’s deputy<\/a> two years ago will soon learn his fate.<\/p>\n The jury began deliberations around 1:30 p.m. Thursday.\u00a0They are deciding the punishment for the gunman who shot and seriously injured an off-duty deputy inside a Fort Worth credit union in 2023.<\/p>\n Leland Williams trial continues <\/p>\n What’s new:<\/p>\n Leland Williams was seen sitting with his attorneys in a Tarrant County court Thursday. Previously, he pleaded guilty to aggravated assault against a peace officer.<\/p>\n The proceedings Thursday began with closing arguments. The state urged the jury to return the maximum life sentence. The defense asked for a lighter sentence, calling Williams remorseful.<\/p>\n Deputy Brent Brown, a 14-year veteran with the Tarrant County sheriff\u2019s department, was in court Thursday for this final phase. He is back at work on full-duty after two major surgeries and an emotional recovery.<\/p>\n The jury deliberated for hours Thursday, but adjourned for the day in the evening and are set to return at 8 a.m. Friday.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, the defense indicated to the jury during punishment phase testimony that he deserves prison time, but not life in prison.<\/p>\n Defense asks for lighter sentence <\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “He did a terrible thing, and he needs to be punished for it, and not a slap on the wrist. But it\u2019s also not life in prison,” said defense attorney J. Eric Nichols.\u00a0<\/p>\n Tarrant County deputy shooting <\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n It was November 2023 at the Fort Worth Community Credit Union on Brentwood Stair Road.\u00a0Williams appeared on the bank\u2019s surveillance video, apparently agitated, and at one point he walked out, then returned.\u00a0<\/p>\n He was seen pacing, and ultimately approaching Brown, who he had spoken to briefly moments before he opened fire.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information in this article comes from FOX 4 coverage at a Tarrant County court hearing.\u00a0<\/p>\n Fort Worth<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article FORT WORTH, Texas – The man who shot a Tarrant County sheriff’s deputy two years ago will…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":441465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,6082,7371,7372,50,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-441464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tarrant-county","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115704331864497358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441464","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=441464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}