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THE BATTALION
Killer sentenced in Del Rio
Ex-carnival-worker-turned-convict faces jury
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DEL RIO (AP) — A poised but tearful 11 -year-old
girl told jurors how she lay in bed terrified as an intruder
slashed the neck of her friend before coming after her.
Next the jury heard videotaped and written confes
sions from Tommy Lynn Sells, a 36-year-old drifter and
former carnival worker.
After three days of testimony, jurors were set to be
gin deliberations Monday in the capital murder trial of
Sells, who has confessed to at least a dozen murders
across the country over the last two decades.
Sells has been charged only in two cases — the slay
ings of 13-year-old girls in Lexington, Ky., and just out
side of Del Rio, on the border 160 miles west of San An
tonio. His trial in the Dec. 31 killing of Kaylene Harris
began last week in Del Rio.
The ex-convict is accused of breaking into her fam
ily’s mobile home while her father, an acquaintance
of his, was out of town. If Sells is convicted, he
would face lethal injection or life in prison.
Sells admitted climbing into a window and going
to the girl’s room while her mother and four other
children slept elsewhere in the house.
He said he got into bed with the girl and sexually as
saulted her, then cut her throat with a butcher knife. He
said he then slashed the neck of a girl who was sleep
ing above Kaylene on a bunk bed — Krystal Surles,
who was visiting from Kansas.
Krystal, who survived and provided investigators
with a description that led to Sells’ arrest, at times cried
and at other times looked Sells in the eye as she re
counted the attacks for jurors.
Sells pleaded guilty to attempted murder for the at
tack on Krystal but pleaded innocent to capital murder
in Kaylene’s death. For Sells to be convicted of capi
tal murder, jurors must find that he committed another
felony in the process, such as sexual assault or burglary.
Sells’ court-appointed attorney, Victor Garcia,
worked to show that there was no evidence of sex
ual assault and suggested that Sells was pressured
into making the admission.
CONROE (AP) — Plans to end
Houston’s dubious distinction as
the nation’s smog capital by re
stricting highway speeds and limit
ing construction work were criti
cized at a public hearing on the
matter Monday.
“Someone is missing the boat,”
Jay Hubbard, 76, said of restric
tions on morning work for con
struction. “Whoever wrote the
limits hasn't been working in our
108-degree weather.”
Proposals under consideration
would bring Houston and the seven
surrounding counties into compliance
with federal clean air standards by im
posing, among other things, unprece
dented restrictions on highway
speeds, limits on when construction
crews could operate heavy equipment
and when homeowners could use gas-
powered lawn mowing equipment.
“Very few are not controver
sial.” Ralph Marquez, commis
sioner of the Texas Natural Re
source Conservation Commission
said last week. “I expect more crit
icism than compliments.”
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