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       ~ Dexter Johnson, (TX) ~
       By: BuzzC Date: March 11, 2019, 9:14 pm
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       Killer erupts in court at death sentence--
       Sentence leads to outburst in court
       Teenager condemned to death in r*p*, robbery, slaying
       Thursday, June 28, 2007
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       HOUSTON-- A whirlwind of emotions took over a Harris County
       courtroom Wednesday after a young man condemned to death hurled
       his chair in anger, triggering police to subdue him and
       relatives to beg for mercy.
       
       Two of 19-year-old Dexter Johnson's relatives collapsed in the
       hall and were taken away on stretchers. The young mother of
       Johnson's toddler daughter lay on the floor moaning and almost
       breathless.
       Later, the presiding judge consoled some in the audience,
       including the parents of the woman Johnson was convicted of
       robbing, raping and killing, who watched the courtroom drama
       unfold.
       
       "Are you OK?" a calm state District Judge Denise Collins asked
       the parents of 23-year-old Maria Aparece. She gently hugged
       Christina Aparece and shook the hand of Protasio Aparece Jr.
       
       Moments earlier, the courtroom had watched Johnson's reaction to
       his punishment.
       He had sat stone-faced throughout the day, the third in the
       punishment phase of his trial, staring at the top of the defense
       table. After the decision was read, Johnson gazed up and pressed
       his lips together. His eyes filled with tears. Then he looked
       toward his family and lifted his hand as if to wave to them.
       
       Then he hurled the chair.
       
       In an instant, a few officers tackled him, while others
       scrambled to restore order.
       
       His relatives wailed, and a male voice begged, "Don't kill him."
       Some relatives buckled over and were sobbing as they left after
       the outburst. An ambulance was called for the two who collapsed.
       
       Seated inside a then-locked courtroom, a crying Protasio Aparece
       Jr. told a reporter, "Can you imagine how violent he was the
       night he killed my daughter."
       
       He also said the most difficult part of the case was sitting
       through trial, learning exactly how his daughter had been
       brutalized.
       Emotion has surfaced throughout the case. At a pretrial hearing
       last year, one of Aparece's uncles lunged at Johnson.
       
       When the jury found him guilty earlier this month, Johnson
       covered his face with his hands as the foreman read the verdict.
       He stormed out of the court room after jurors adjourned to the
       jury room.
       
       Johnson, who at one point during the punishment phase of his
       trial refused to come to court, was among five accused of
       carjacking Aparece and her boyfriend, Huy Ngo, on June 18, 2006.
       The pair were chatting in her Toyota in front of Ngo's home when
       Johnson and two others threatened them with a shotgun and a
       pistol, according to testimony.
       
       Johnson; his friend Keithron Fields, 18; and a third man who is
       not charged in the case, drove the couple around Houston while
       taking Aparece's cash and credit cards and trying to get her ATM
       access number, according to trial testimony. Timothy Randle, 20,
       and Ashley Ervin, 18, were following the stolen vehicle in
       Ervin's car.
       
       Prosecutors said Johnson raped Aparece in the backseat of her
       car after parking near a patch of thick woods. Her boyfriend was
       forced to listen to the assault while on his knees as the other
       four taunted him.
       
       Johnson and Fields then marched a naked Aparece and a shirtless
       Ngo 60 feet into the woods and shot both in the head.
       The two bodies were in the woods for five days before
       investigators pieced together what happened. Randle led them to
       the bodies.
       
       The five are suspected in a crime spree that authorities said
       also claimed the lives of Brady Davis and Jose Lopez in separate
       shootings. Fields, Randle and Ervin continue to face capital
       murder charges in the incident.
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