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A Smith County judge sentenced a Tyler man to 50 years in state prison for a 2019 murder committed in a gas station parking lot.
James Robert Smith III, 30, of Tyler, pleaded guilty to Smith County Judge Austin Reeve Jackson on Friday and accepted Jackson’s sentencing.
Smith was arrested on May 12, 2019, after after he encountered 27-year-old Donovan Reese in the parking lot of a gas station as Reese was attempting to change a flat tire. Smith fired seven shots, eventually hitting and killing Donovan.
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