KAUFMAN, Texas — Last week, Donald Ray Coleman pled guilty to murder in the 2016 shooting death of John Morgan at Kaufman’s Walmart.
KAUFMAN, Texas — Last week, Donald Ray Coleman pled guilty to murder in the 2016 shooting death of John Morgan at Kaufman’s Walmart.
On March 22, 2016, Coleman shot 59-year-old John D. Morgan multiple times in the garden section at Walmart before turning the gun on himself in an attempted murder-suicide. Coleman shot himself in the head, was airlifted to a Dallas-area hospital in critical condition, and was later released to the custody of the Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office having been charged with murder.
Coleman pled guilty to murder in a plea agreement and was sentenced to 38 years in prison.
“He must serve half of the sentence before he is eligible for parole, however, with his age and health issues we believe he will be behind bars for the rest of his life,” the Kaufman Police Department stated of the sentencing.
At the time of the original incident, investigators believed the shooting to be the culmination of an earlier domestic disturbance in which Coleman bound his estranged wife, beat her, and threatened to kill her and a friend she had been out with the night before, according to the police.
Coleman was arrested in that incident but released the next day on bonds totaling $22,500.
