The Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office this week waived the death penalty as a possible punishment for the two defendants who are under capital murder indictment in connection with a mass shooting last year at a parking lot in the Como section of west Fort Worth.
Christopher Redic Jr., 21, and Brandon Williams, 20, fired guns upon a crowd and shot three people to death , prosecutors have alleged. Eight other people were also shot and survived.
The district attorney’s office filed the waiver on Monday.
If they are convicted of capital murder, Redic and Williams would automatically be sentenced to life in prison without parole. The defendants were arrested four days after the July 3 shooting and were indicted in September. Their cases are pending in the 297th District Court in Tarrant County.
The indictments allege that Redic and Williams committed murders of Gabriella Navarrete, 18, Cynthia Santos, 22, and Paul Willis, 18 , as the defendants committed another offense, terroristic threat.