In a sobering reveal from the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office, 33-year-old Lazarus Gomes has been sentenced to a quarter-century behind bars. This decision was the upshot of a probation revocation. Gomes, once tethered by the lenience of a probation term for a narcotics offense, found those reins snapped after a series of violent transgressions against an intimate partner.
Details shared by the District Attorney’s Office on social media paint a grim portrait of Gomes’s conduct during what should have been a period of penitence and rehabilitation. The crimes he committed included aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, assault of a family member by impeding their breathing, and assault of a family member with a previous conviction, each more harrowing than the last.
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