Jan 27, 6:37 PM EST
By MICHAEL GRACZYK
Associated Press Writer

HOUSTON (AP) -- A Houston man described by authorities as the leader of a gang responsible for at least four murders and dozens of robberies lost an appeal Wednesday of his death sentence for the slayings of a young couple during a carjacking.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected the appeal of Dexter Darnell Johnson, condemned for the June 2006 shooting deaths of Maria Aparece, 23, of Sugar Land, and her 17-year-old boyfriend Huy Ngo, of Houston.

Aparece was from the Philippines and a pre-nursing student. Ngo, who was Vietnamese, had moved to Houston with his family from France.

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