HOUSTON—A man was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for fatally stabbing an 11-year-old Houston boy as the child walked home from school in 2016.
Andre Timothy Jackson had chosen state District Judge Denise Collins to sentence him instead of the jury that had found him guilty of murder on Tuesday in the death of Josue Flores.
Before being sentenced, the 33-year-old Jackson read a lengthy statement to Collins in which he offered his condolences to Josue’s family but continued to maintain his innocence and question the validity of the DNA evidence that helped convict him.
“I can assure you that I’m a man with a beautiful personality… I have traditional Christian Baptist values. I have ethics and morals that I’ve picked up from the Marine Corps and my own experience in life,” Jackson said.
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