DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — A jury has returned a guilty verdict in the murder trial of a former Texas A&M football player who killed a jogger on White Rock Trail in 2015.
Thomas Johnson was found guilty after less than an hour of jury deliberation, and just over a day of witness testimony.
Johnson’s attorneys did not call any witnesses after state prosecutors called several, including family members, Dallas County Medical Examiner employees, and bystanders who saw Johnson the day David Stevens was killed.
State prosecutors also played audio of a 911 call Johnson made, saying there was a man with a sword in his head on the trail. Stevens was hacked by a machete.
The punishment phase began immediately after the verdict was rendered. Johnson’s attorneys will argue he was mentally insane and off his schizophrenia medicine at the time of the killing.
