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| Texas Executes Man Who Killed Three Relatives at Age 17 |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/30/2002 |
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A former teenage drug dealer has been executed for killing a 3-year-old cousin - one of three relatives gunned down - so he could steal some fancy chrome wheels. Before he received the lethal injection on Wednesday, Toronto Patterson said he didn't commit the crime but added, 'I am sorry for the pain, sorry for what I caused my friends, family and loved ones. 'I ask for your forgiveness and that you will all forgive me,' he said. Patterson, 24, was arrested at age 17 for the fatal shootings of Ollie Brown, 3; her sister, Jennifer, 6; and their mother, Kimberly Brewer, 25. He was convicted only of murdering Ollie. Prosecutors said Patterson went to the home of his great-aunt on June 6, 1995, so he could steal the chrome wheels from a BMW stored there. Similar wheels on his own car had been stolen. Armed with a .38-caliber pistol, he shot Brewer, his great-aunt's daughter, as she was seated in a recliner, prosecutors said. They said he then shot Jennifer as she watched cartoons and Ollie as she cowered in a corner of the room, her hands over her ears. Patterson's fingerprints were found on the rims, left at his girlfriend's house, and his bloody clothing was traced to the victims. In testimony at his trial and in interviews, he blamed the deaths on unnamed 'Jamaicans.' Patterson's age at the time of the slayings renewed criticism of capital punishment for teenagers. Texas has executed two other men this year whose crimes committed when they were 17. Patterson was the 23rd Texas inmate executed this year and the fifth this month. Five inmates are scheduled for execution in September. |
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