A Texas man posed as a minor and lured a convicted child sex offender to death because he felt authorities weren’t doing enough to keep pedophiles in prison.
James Spencer III, 24, had been in contact with Sean Connery Showers, 37, on the messaging app Kik, where he posed as an underage boy while the two planned to meet up while some of his messages appeared “of an underage nature.” sexual,” according to ABC 13.
The showers had reached the 900 block of Northwood St in Houston on May 29, 2023, when a car pulled up next to them before the driver fired numerous “automatic-like” shots and accelerated.
In 2009, Showers pleaded guilty to federal possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 30 months in prison, in addition to registering as a sex offender.
Ten years later, he was sentenced to two more years in prison for failing to register as a sex offender, according to records obtained by the outlet.
Another driver found Showers’ lifeless body in a ditch inside the residential neighborhood.
Investigators connected Spencer to Showers’ death after a phone found under the man’s lifeless body had messages indicating he planned to meet someone at nearby Montie Beach Park.
James Spencer III was charged with first-degree felony murder for the murder of Sean Connery Showers on May 29, 2023. Click 2
“(Spencer and Showers) were communicating through a social media application,” said 179th District Court Chief Prosecutor Rehman Merchant.
“The communications were sexual in nature. “Officers believe they were gathering at this park to engage in sexual activity.”
Some of Spencer’s messages were apparently used to get Showers to admit his past.
“There are some communications by phone or between the two about (Showers’) dealings or past interactions with children or minors,” Merchant said.
Showers pleaded guilty to federal possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 30 months in prison, in addition to having to register as a sex offender in 2009. Click 2
Spencer allegedly became a vigilante after claiming that authorities were not doing enough to stop the other predators.
“(A) third claims that (Spencer) told them he believed the police were not doing enough to keep pedophiles incarcerated and (Spencer) wanted to rob and harm those types of men because they would do bad things to little children.” and other people and he knew how to track them using an app on his phone,” his bail order, obtained by KTRK, said. “A month later, the defendant made the same comment that ‘if the police weren’t going to do anything, maybe he should kill them himself.’”
Police also linked Spencer to the murder using phone records that tracked the man to the area of the murder, and he later admitted to going to the scene “several times.”
The showers had reached the 900 block of Northwood St in Houston on May 29, 2023, when a car pulled up next to them before the driver fired numerous “automatic-like” shots and accelerated. Click 2
“Based on the conversation he had with his girlfriend, that type of comment he had made was ‘pedophiles’ plural,” Merchant said. “Right now, we’re still investigating that.”
Spencer was arrested Wednesday by the Gulf Coast Violent Offender Task Force.
He is currently being held on $25,000 bail in the Harris County Jail on a charge of first-degree felony murder, according to jail records.
The district attorney’s office filed a motion to hold him without bond, citing that he is out on bond for a possession of a controlled substance charge in Brazoria County, according to KTRK.
Spencer appears during a court hearing following his arrest earlier this week. Click 2
“This was devilishly clever,” Andy Kahan, director of victim services for Houston Crime Stoppers, told Click2Houston. “When I look at this, I think, ‘this is what you see in the movies.’”
“This guy had to have a lot of experience and had to prepare for this. “This was not a random deal on the spur of the moment,” Kahan said.
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