Overview

• District Judge Michael Mery imposed the 38-year sentence on Monday, according to the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office.
• The victim, Shane Jean‑Louis Bourret of Georgia, was reported missing in May 2019 and later found buried in a backyard on North San Felipe Avenue.
• Evidence outlined in records included threatening messages, a voicemail attributed to King, a FaceTime video allegedly showing the body, and bullets with repaired bullet holes at a Northwest Side rental home.
• King was arrested in Mississippi and extradited to Bexar County to face murder and concealing or altering a corpse charges.
• Donald Wayne Barber, 66, is charged with tampering with a human corpse, classified as a second-degree felony, and remains awaiting trial.