Associated Press
HOUSTON — An Alabama man on death row in Texas for the slayings of 4 people in Houston more than two decades ago has lost an appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Without comment Tuesday, the high court refused the case of 42-year-old Arthur Brown, of Tuscaloosa, Ala. One of Brown’s companions in the June 1992 shootings, Marion Dudley, was executed in 2006. A third partner is serving life.
Authorities say Brown was part of a ring shuttling drugs from Texas to Alabama and the shootings were intended to eliminate a Houston couple as middlemen in the deals.
The four people killed included 32-year-old Jose Tovar; his wife’s 17-year-old son, Frank Farias; Farias’ 19-year-old girlfriend, Jessica Quinones, who was seven months pregnant; and 21-year-old neighbor Audrey Brown. Two others shot survived.