A 44-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in connection with a 2017 capital murder in Frisco, according to the Collin County District Attorney’s Office.
A jury found Kerrico Carr guilty in the case stemming from a June 30, 2017, killing.
Police responded that night to reports of a gunshot and a masked man with a firearm in a Frisco neighborhood, District Attorney Greg Willis said. Officers found a victim with a gunshot wound to the back in a nearby yard.
The case went cold after a witness identified an unrelated person in a lineup, authorities said. Frisco police detectives reopened the investigation in 2023 and contacted another suspect who was with Carr on the day of the shooting. That suspect told investigators Carr fired the weapon, killing the victim, according to the district attorney’s office.
An arrest warrant was issued for Carr, who was taken into custody in Arkansas after serving time in federal prison for conspiracy to commit identity theft.
During the trial, jurors heard a recorded jail call in which Carr admitted he was at the scene and said he went there to collect money from the victim, prosecutors said. Because the jury found Carr guilty of capital murder, he was automatically sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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