CENTER, Texas (AP) - A Houston-area man has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2012 shooting death of a housekeeper at an East Texas motel during a robbery.
Jurors in Shelby County on Monday convicted 42-year-old Bobbie Dewayne Grubbs of Conroe of capital murder. Grubbs was also convicted of two counts of aggravated assault in the wounding of two employees of the Joaquin (wah-KEEN’) Country Inn during the same incident.
Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty so Grubbs received an automatic life prison term without parole for the slaying of Martha Acevedo-Chan. Grubbs was sentenced to life in prison for shooting the other two employees at the motel in Joaquin, 175 miles southeast of Dallas.
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His ex-wife, Deedra Michelle Grubbs, awaits trial on a capital murder charge in the same incident.
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