{"id":89913,"date":"2025-07-24T23:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T23:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/89913\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T23:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T23:47:09","slug":"fort-worth-man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-killing-cousin-in-2023-prosecutors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/89913\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth man sentenced to life in prison for killing cousin in 2023, prosecutors say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A Fort Worth man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his cousin in 2023, the Tarrant County District Attorney\u2019s Office said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Jacoby Roberts, 25, was found guilty of capital murder in the fatal shooting of Jailon Freeman, 25, according to a Thursday news release. Roberts\u2019 attorneys didn\u2019t immediately respond to a comment request Thursday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The shooting took place on April 4, 2023 at an apartment complex in the 5100 block of Ivy Wood Lane. <\/p>\n<p>Related:<a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-related-story-module__82BFj\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2023\/05\/31\/suspect-in-connection-with-april-slaying-in-fort-worth-turns-himself-in\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Suspect in connection with April slaying in Fort Worth turns himself in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crime in The News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-cta-social-module__zWZy- mb-4\">Read the crime and public safety news your neighbors are talking about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Prosecutors said Roberts believed Freeman owed him money from drug deals the two had conducted. They said as a result, Roberts helped put together a fake drug deal to lure his cousin out of his apartment, before shooting him in the back of the head. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Officials said Roberts then fled the scene with a bag of cocaine and a handgun that Freeman had with him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cThis was an ambush,\u201d Tarrant County Assistant District Attorney Matt Rivers told the jury, according to the news release. \u201cHe knew what he did was wrong, so he ran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Roberts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2023\/05\/31\/suspect-in-connection-with-april-slaying-in-fort-worth-turns-himself-in\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2023\/05\/31\/suspect-in-connection-with-april-slaying-in-fort-worth-turns-himself-in\/\">turned himself<\/a> in days after the shooting, Fort Worth police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Jordan Thurman and Draylon Gowans, who are facing capital murder charges for their involvement in the fake drug deal, have yet to be prosecuted, according to the news release. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his cousin in 2023, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":89914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,356,4219,7371,7372,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-89913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fortworth","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89913","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=89913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}