District Attorney Erleigh Norville Wiley announced today that a Kaufman County jury has found Defendant, STARSKY LEMON HOLMES, 40 years old, guilty of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon Enhanced and sentenced him to 42 years in the Texas penitentiary before the Honorable Judge Shelton Gibbs in the 422nd District Court of Kaufman County.
Evidence in the trial showed that Holmes was engaged in a conflict at a Terrell party in early 2022. The defendant escalated the conflict when he retrieved an AR-style rifle and violently assaulted the victim by hitting him in the face with the buttstock of the firearm. The blow knocked the victim unconscious and caused him severe injury requiring multiple corrective surgeries.
The jury found Holmes guilty of the first-degree felony of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon Enhanced. Punishment evidence presented by the state revealed that Holmes had previously been convicted of multiple felony charges and had been sentenced to the penitentiary on two prior occasions. At the conclusion of punishment evidence in the present case, the jury sentenced Holmes to 42 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division.
The prosecution was led by Assistant Criminal District Attorneys Robyn Beckham and Hillary Heisel, Investigators Brandi Dial and Walter Hughey, and paralegals Amanda Morris and Kristen Tucker. Additionally, the District Attorney’s Office would like to thank the Terrell Police Department for their work on the case. District Attorney Wiley sends her well wishes to the victim and commends the sentence by stating, “Victims in Kaufman County are safer now that a violent offender is off the streets of our community. Special thanks to the hardworking and impartial jury that listened to the evidence and sentenced the defendant - which sends a message that violence will not be tolerated in our community.”
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