Man convicted of capital murder in roadside ambush
Punishment phase up next in Williamson court.
By Benjamin Wermund
AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Published: 7:58 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012
On Wednesday, a Williamson County jury found Bobby Burks Jr., 34, of Taylor guilty of robbing and killing a man whose cousin was giving two women a ride home from a Southeast Austin nightclub in April 2010.
The jury found Burks guilty of capital murder and two counts of aggravated robbery. Burks faces life in prison without parole or the death penalty for the murder charge and five to 99 years or life in prison for each of the aggravated robbery charges. The sentencing phase of the trial begins this morning.
Burks is guilty of killing Raul Vizueth Torres, 18, after ambushing him on a dark road south of Taylor.
During the trial, prosecutor Jane Starnes had said that Burks conspired with his two sisters-in-law, Veronica Ortiz and Isabel Gonzales, to find men to rob at La Rumba nightclub on East Riverside Drive on April 17, 2010.
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