A jury Wednesday in the 163rd State District Court spent about 30 minutes to decide a woman involved in the December 2014 shootout at a house on Ridgemont Drive was guilty of engaging in organized criminal activity.
The jury then met again to assess a punishment of 42 years in prison for 37-year-old Kenyatta Walker of Orange. She was one of the residents living in the house at 3733 Ridgemont Drive.
A group of four men in a four-door pickup truck drove up to the house about 9 p.m. on Friday, December 12, 2014. Three got out with weapons including military-style assault weapons.
They broke into the house through a barred front door. The people inside, including Walker, were armed and fired back. A 35-year-old man from Houston, who had been with the group invading the house, died in the front yard from gunshot wounds. Police at the time reported the victim had a prison record and was covered in gang tattoos.
Walker lived in the house with her now 23-year-old daughter. A man inside the house was also seriously injured in the shootout.
Orange police reported finding prescription pills, liquid PCP, a seven-pound bale of marijuana and numerous baggies of marijuana inside the house.
The trial was conducted before State Judge Dennis Powell with Assistant District Attorney Krispen Walker prosecuting.
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