Man convicted for 2014 double homicide in Potter County, sentenced to life without parole | KVII

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After a two-week trial, Nga Lone Aung has been convicted of capital murder for a 2014 double homicide by a Potter County jury. According to 47th District Attorney Randall Sims, because prosecutors did not seek the death penalty, Aung, 43, was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. At about 12 a. m. on June 7, 2014, a 15-year-old female called police after hearing gun shots in her backyard and then inside the house.

Friday, March 15, 2019

After a two-week trial, Nga Lone Aung has been convicted of capital murder for a 2014 double homicide by a Potter County jury. (Courtesy: Potter County Sheriff's Office){/p}

AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) — After a two-week trial, Nga Lone Aung has been convicted of capital murder for a 2014 double homicide by a Potter County jury.

According to 47th District Attorney Randall Sims, because prosecutors did not seek the death penalty, Aung, 43, was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole.

At about 12 a.m. on June 7, 2014, a 15-year-old female called police after hearing gun shots in her backyard and then inside the house. She also reported hearing her mother's voice and an unknown Asian male's voice shouting over one another. Next, the caller told police she heard her mother say "please, no" and then more gun shots.

Soon afterwards, she went out of her room and found her mother in the living having been shot several time.

When police arrived, they discovered the girl's father deceased on the back porch. The female victim was taken to a local hospital where she died from her wounds.

The intruder was determined to have made entry on the property by climbing the fence from the alley into the back yard.

Aung was quickly determined as a suspect based on communications made with the female victim on Facebook.

Amarillo Police Department Special Crimes Investigators were able to obtain an arrest warrant for Aung for capital murder of multiple persons.

Aung was arrested in Liberal, Kan. where Liberal Police found him driving through town. He was subsequently extradited to Amarillo for trial.