Fort Worth woman who ordered victim shot sentenced to 30 years in 2018 motel killing
A Fort Worth woman who ordered a robbery victim shot because he wasn’t cooperating has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the 2018 killing, according to court records.
The gunman is now serving a 45-year sentence for the robbery/murder in March 2018 that left 37-year-old Corey Brown dead in a Fort Worth motel room.
Cassandra Garcia, 26, was sentenced a few weeks ago to prison on the murder charge, according to Tarrant County criminal court records.
Garcia, who fled the motel room along with her accomplices, was arrested in Fort Worth shortly after the fatal shooting.
An arrest warrant obtained by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in 2018 gave this brief account of the robbery and slaying:
Brown and four other people had been staying in a room at the Motel 6 in the 900 block of East Northside Drive.
On the morning of March 3, 2018, a woman in the room began communicating with a friend who wanted to know her room number so he could visit her.
The woman looked out the window and saw her friend’s car in the parking lot.
Minutes later, Garcia and three men stormed in after they knocked on the door and someone opened it.
Garcia and one of the men rushed in with handguns and pointed the weapons at the occupants, according to the warrant.
One witness described Garcia as being in charge, giving her accomplices commands.
At some point, Brown was lying down and Garcia ordered her accomplice with a handgun to shoot him “because he was not cooperating with the robbery,” the warrant states.
Garcia and her accomplices stole several cellphones and a Sony Bluetooth speaker before fleeing from the motel, according to the warrant.
Hours later, detectives went to a home in the 4800 block of South Hughes Avenue after tracking one of the stolen cellphones to that residence.
Detectives later identified Garcia as one of the suspects. She was stopped and arrested the day after the slaying after police established surveillance on her Fort Worth home.
Several weeks later, two of her accomplices, Robert Trevino, 34, of Fort Worth, and Angel Lopez, 28, of Fort Worth, were arrested.
Trevino, who police said was the gunman in the March 3, 2018 slaying, was sentenced to 45 years in prison in August 2019.
Lopez was sentenced to 20 years in February on an aggravated robbery charge.
This report contains information from Fort Worth Star-Telegram archives.
This story was originally published April 14, 2020 at 2:10 PM.
