A Tarrant County jury sentenced a man to life in prison after he admitted driving from Georgia to Fort Worth to fatally shoot his father in a planned attack captured on home surveillance video, prosecutors said.
Xavier General Bass, 29, received the sentence after pleading guilty to murdering Gene Bass, a highly respected 54-year-old retired U.S. Army master sergeant and Crowley ISD JROTC instructor, according to the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office.
Prosecutors said Xavier Bass spent months planning the ambush, then drove more than 900 miles from Valdosta, Georgia, to his father’s Fort Worth home, where he opened fire and chased him as he tried to flee…