Overview
- Jurors found Urick guilty of capital murder on Friday after roughly three and a half hours of deliberation, according to local court reporting.
- Prosecutors presented bank and Cash App records showing money moved from Tammy King’s accounts to granddaughter Tara King and payments to Urick, alongside reports of missing guns from a home safe.
- Text and social media messages shown in court indicated the couple discussed kidnapping and killing the victim and referenced stolen cash, pills, coins and firearms.
- Defense attorney Bill Agnew acknowledged Urick’s role in the death but argued the state failed to prove robbery, urging a murder conviction rather than capital murder.
- Investigators said the pair fled after the killing, tried to sell guns and offered people money for shelter before their arrest in Laredo with assistance from the Gulf Coast Violent Offender Task Force; Tara King remains charged and awaits trial.