East Texas man sentenced to 25-years in prison after killing man he met to buy LSD from in Houston
HOUSTON - An East Texas man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the 2018 murder of a man he met to buy LSD.
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Jace Weeks, 24, of Huntington, pleaded guilty to murder in the shooting death of Sam Kyle James, 31, on April 30, 2018.
Weeks drove to Houston to buy LSD from James, who went by Kyle. Before the exchange could occur, Weeks shot James in the head with a .22-caliber rifle. James was found in his car in the parking garage of his apartment complex in the 600 block of Dairy Ashford.
Investigators with the Houston Police Department reviewed surveillance video from the complex to identify the car that Weeks had been in and were able to trace the license-plate number back to him. Investigators interviewed Weeks just days after the murder, and he admitted what happened.
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Assistant District Attorney Bryan Honeycutt, a chief in the trial division, prosecuted the case.
"It was very important to the victim's family that the killer face justice, and he took responsibility for his actions and admitted to how everything happened," Honeycutt said. "The family of Kyle James has waited very patiently for the past five years, and we were able to negotiate an appropriate sentence."
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Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said that the sentence was a just punishment for Weeks' crime.
"This was a pointless murder that didn't have to happen," Ogg said. "By getting justice for the victim's family, they are able to have some closure and move forward with their grief."
Weeks will be eligible for parole after serving 20 years of his sentence.