Gray sentenced to 65 years

PALMER -- A judge sentenced Kira Gray Tuesday to 65 years in prison for her role in the 2005 shooting death of Terrell Houngues.

Superior Court Judge Eric Smith shortly after 12 p.m. proclaimed his sentence for Gray, 19 – 99 years with 44 suspended for first-degree murder and 10 years flat for kidnapping.

Houngues, 23, was found shot to death on Mother’s Day, 2005 on an ATV trail in Houston.

At trial, prosecutors said Gray lured Houngues to the Valley with promises of money and drugs buried along the Parks Highway. There, on orders from her boyfriend who was angry over suspicions Houngues had stolen some of his cocaine, Gray shot Houngues in the knee and then the face, prosecutors said.

A psychologist who testified at Gray’s two-day sentencing hearing said Gray admitted to her that she shot Houngues.

Gray is the last of four defendants to receive her sentence. Her boyfriend, Mario Page, is serving a 65-year sentence, Tommie Patterson, whom prosecutors dubbed Page’s ‘enforcer,’ received a sentence of 100 years.

Frederick Johnson agreed to testify against the other three and, in exchange, was allowed to plead no contest to evidence tampering for which he received less than five years in jail.