The adoptive father of a young Texas child has learned his fate for murdering the 7-year-old boy, authorities announced in a statement capped off with the words: “Justice served.”
Jemaine Thomas, 45, was sentenced on Wednesday to 50 years in prison for murdering young Troy Koehler in the summer of 2022, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office announced. Court records show Thomas pleaded guilty to the charge of murder before accepting the sentence.
Thomas was arrested that November, but authorities’ case began on the morning of July 28, 2022, when Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived at a home on the 4400 block of Rosegate Drive due to a report of a missing child. Investigators later found the child – Koehler – in a washing machine, and he was pronounced dead, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said at the time…