Wednesday, April 30, 2008

By Tommy Witherspoon
Waco Tribune-Herald staff writer

Demorian Dashon Scott threatened Rayshone Lamond Thomas and then shot him five times, telling Thomas that it was time to teach him a lesson for stiffing him in drug deals, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday.

Scott, 19, is on trial for murder in Waco’s 19th State District Court in the Nov. 10, 2006, shooting death of the 28-year-old Thomas in the 1600 block of West Avenue.

“It was a drug deal gone bad,” prosecutor Beth Toben told the jury of eight women and four men as the trial opened Tuesday. “The victim owed him money for dope, but that didn’t give him the right to shoot him down in the street.”

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