‘Vigilante’, 24, is charged with murdering convicted pedophile
- James Lewis Spencer admitted to taking pictures lifeless Sean Connery Showers, 37
- Pair talked on Kik app with Spencer posing as a toddler, agreeing to satisfy for intercourse
- Instead he ambushed Showers and gunned him down from his automotive
A ‘diabolically crafty’ vigilante posed as a toddler on-line to lure a pedophile right into a entice, then gunned him down in a drive-by taking pictures.
James Lewis Spencer, 24, admitted to murdering Sean Connery Showers, 37, after the convicted intercourse offender’s boy was present in Houston on May 29.
He was arrested with out incident on Wednesday and charged with first-degree homicide, dealing with the Harris County District Court on Thursday.
‘To be frank, this can be a deliberate execution,’ chief prosecutor Rehman Merchant stated.
‘I feel he focused a person, he arrange a meet, knew the place he was going to be, after which discharged a weapon a number of occasions after which simply went again house like nothing occurred.’
Vigilante James Lewis Spencer, 24, posted as a toddler on-line to lure a pedophile right into a entice, then gunned him down in a drive-by taking pictures
Surveillance footage confirmed a automotive drive as much as Showers about 3.50am and cease subsequent to him, earlier than he was shot a number of occasions with an computerized weapon.
Police on the time could not establish the automotive or the motive force, however discovered Showers’ cellphone below his physique with messages exhibiting he deliberate to satisfy somebody at a close-by park.
Merchant stated Spencer started messaging Showers on Kik, a social media app in style with youngsters, posing as a toddler, and agreed to have intercourse with him.
‘The communications have been sexual in nature. The officers consider that they have been assembly up at this park to have interaction in sexual exercise,’ he stated.
‘There are some communications on the telephones or between the 2 about [Showers’] dealings or previous interactions with kids or underage people.’
He was arrested with out incident on Wednesday and charged with first-degree homicide, dealing with the Harris County District Court on Thursday
Showers was despatched to federal jail for 30 months for baby porn possession in 2009, and jailed once more for 2 years in 2019 for not registering as a intercourse offender.
Spencer was finally recognized by way of cellphone information, and his cellphone was tracked to and from the homicide scene that evening.
Detectives spoke to Spencer’s girlfriend, who instructed them he was annoyed police weren’t doing extra to maintain pedophiles locked up.
Spencer instructed her ‘he wished to rob and hurt these sort of males as a result of they’d do dangerous issues to little kids and different individuals and he knew how one can observe them by an app on the cellphone’, his bail paperwork learn.
‘A month later, defendant made the identical remark that ‘if the cops weren’t going to do something, perhaps he ought to kill them himself.”
Spencer is but to enter a plea, however police stated he ‘admitted to his function within the incident’.
Sean Connery Showers, 37, was despatched to federal jail for 30 months for baby porn possession in 2009, and jailed once more for 2 years in 2019 for not registering as a intercourse offender
Merchant stated police have been attempting to entry Spencer’s cellphone to find out if he was linked to every other murders or assaults on intercourse offenders.
‘Based on the dialog he had with the girlfriend, that kind of remark he had made ‘pedophiles’ within the plural. As of now, we’re nonetheless investigating that,’ he stated.
‘Look, whatever the likability of the sufferer, we’re a nation of legal guidelines. No one will get to be choose, jury, and executioner relying on how they really feel.’
Victim companies director of Houston Crime Stoppers, Andy Kahan, known as Spencer ‘diabolically crafty’ and stated the case was one thing you solely noticed in films.
Spencer was given a $250,000 bail forward of his subsequent court docket look on Monday, however was but to put up the bond as was nonetheless behind bars.
After prosecutors identified he was already out on bail on drug costs, he was ordered on 24-hour home arrest with GPS monitoring, and having no entry to firearms, ammunition, or weapons.
