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Dallas man pleads guilty to slaying, gets 20 years in death of McLennan County man
A Dallas man who shot local resident Christian Marton during an attempted robbery pleaded guilty Monday and received a 20-year sentence.
George Carter, 24, negotiated the plea deal on murder charges with the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office. Carter could have gotten up to life in prison for the crime, but prosecutors decided to give him a lesser sentence because he testified against the man who set Marton up to be robbed.
That man, 26-year-old Kendrick Demus, was found guilty of capital murder by a jury last month. Capital murder carries a punishment of either the death penalty or a life sentence. Since the prosecution did not seek the death penalty, Demus automatically received life in prison.
Marton, who lived in Axtell, was 21 when he was killed in June 2007. He went to Dallas to buy a car he had seen advertised on Craiglist, an Internet classifieds site. But the deal was a set-up, with Kendrick and Demus conspiring to rob Marton of the $2,000 he had brought to buy the car.
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By No Name
March 2, 2009 2:16 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
I watched the reality show “The First 48” on A&E that followed the investigation. It was heartbreaking to her Christian’s girlfriend call 911, and his father talk about what a good kid Christian was.
I wonder why the death penalty was not sought?
By Ratso
March 2, 2009 2:39 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
The guy that actually did the killing got off lighter? Am I reading this correctly???
By Tex
March 2, 2009 4:24 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
20 years for taking a life. It just does not seem fair. He, along with the guy who set him up, should never know what freedom feels like again.
By qzy
March 2, 2009 5:53 PM | Link to this | Report comment abuse
He was such a big, tough man while killing this guy but then turned into a little wuss and testified against the other guy. It doesn’t make any sense that the trigger man got off lighter than the guy who set it up. When he gets to jail and it gets around that he was the “stool pigeon” he will wish he could keep his mouth shut in more ways than one.