‘He cannot ever be on the streets’: Fort Worth man sentenced for murdering ex-girlfriend
A Fort Worth judge sentenced a 40-year-old man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend to life in prison on Tuesday.
Jarvis Franklin shot Karen Finney multiple times in her east Fort Worth home on Jan. 18, 2019, according to the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office. Three of Finney’s four children were home when their mother was murdered.
“He cannot ever be on the streets of this county — or anywhere else,” Assistant District Attorney Allenna Bangs said during closing arguments of the sentencing hearing Tuesday after Franklin pleaded guilty to murder.
Finney’s four children were left traumatized by their mother’s murder, according to family members.
“You left my cousins without a mother. You don’t deserve another minute to breathe,” one of Finney’s relatives told Franklin after he was sentenced.
Family members told police that Finney tried to break up with Franklin but he wouldn’t leave her alone. One of her children told investigators she heard the doorbell ring and then her mother arguing with Finney before gunshots rang out, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
