That’s what attorney Gerald Bourque said Thursday right after a Houston jury had sentenced his client to death. The jury deliberated only 2-1/2 hours before deciding that Teddrick Batiste, 23, should die for a coldblooded murder committed on April 19, 2009.
Around 3 a.m., Batiste and a fellow Crips gang member followed Horace Holiday, 26, from a nightclub, intending to steal the chrome spinning rims on his Cadillac. He shot Holiday while they were driving on a freeway, wounding him in the arm and leg. The victim exited the freeway and crashed into a convenience store gas pump. As Holiday was trying to crawl to safety, Batiste followed him to the store, got out of his car and shot him several more times. Batiste then took the Cadillac, but was captured by police after an eight-mile high speed chase.
Only eleven days earlier, Batiste and another Crips member had robbed and killed Black Widow tattoo parlor owner Steve Robbins. Batiste’s crime partners in both murders remain unidentified.
Let me sum this up. Batiste is a member of the notorious Crips gang. He wanted to steal the rims from a Cadillac. After wounding Holiday, he follows him and shoots him several more times as he was trying to crawl to safety. And only eleven days earlier he had killed another robbery victim.
And Gerald Bourque, his lawyer, says: "I just didn't see it as a death penalty case." All I can say is that Bourque must be totally blind. But wait a minute, I could be wrong. Perhaps Bourque believed his client was just performing a mercy killing - trying to put a wounded man out of his misery - when he stood over Horace Holiday and shot him several more times as the bleeding man was trying to crawl to safety.
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was on the jury. we cried and prayed and travailed. we did not want to give him death. We probably saw 5 times more evidence in the jury room then was presented in the open trial. We had to give him what he deserved.
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