In January 2013, when they were TCU students, Brennan Rodriguez loaded a syringe with heroin and injected it into Thomas “Ty” Boone Pickens’ arm, inadvertently killing the grandson of late billionaire oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens.
When he asked Rodriguez to give him just enough heroin to make him doze off, Ty Pickens was upset that Pickens and a former girlfriend were not getting back together, Rodriguez’s cousin, who was present, told a Fort Worth police homicide detective.
Rodriguez was indicted on felony murder. In a plea agreement with the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office, Rodriguez was sentenced in November 2014 to 10 years deferred-adjudication probation when he pleaded guilty to a charge of delivery of a controlled substance causing death…