[1] On that same night, Foster, along with three of his friends, Julius Steen, Mauriceo Brown, and Dwayne Dillard, were driving around San Antonio committing armed robberies.
Of the 43 states with some form of felony murder, there are at least four approaches related to variables such as degree of negligence, proof of "malice," or in 28 states proof of a related death and the mere act of committing the separate felony are sufficient.
[5] Texas Governor Rick Perry commuted the death sentence to 40 years to life imprisonment only six hours before the execution was scheduled to take place on August 30, 2007.
[8] Dwayne Dillard was sentenced to life for killing a taxi driver two weeks before LaHood's murder.
[10] On November 6, 2021, while serving his life sentence at the Telford Unit, fellow inmate Anthony Dominguez was killed by injuries consistent with a physical altercation.