Two Aryan Brotherhood of Texas Members Charged in Kidnapping, Murder
Two members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) have been charged in the kidnapping and murder of another member of that violent, racist gang.
Lisa Gibby, 41, and Dalton Clayton, 21, were indicted on capital murder by terroristic threat in Grayson County, Texas, and may face the death penalty if convicted, KTEN-TV in Denison reported over the weekend.
The two are charged in the death Albert Duane Parker, also an ABT member, whose body was found on May 21 in a field east of Sherman, Texas. The indictment alleges Gibby and Clayton killed Parker by “stabbing him with a knife or sharp bladed object.” There is no mention of motive in the charging document.
“The victim was kidnapped before he was killed,” Joe Brown, Grayson County District Attorney, told the television station. “We're working through the evidence, but we certainly know the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is involved in this case.”
Brown said investigators are exploring several possible motives for the killing. “Significantly, we don't have to prove motive. We don't have to prove why it happened.”
When the murder indictment was filed on Friday, Gibby and Dalton were already jailed on drug and weapons charges. Their previous criminal history, combined with allegedly kidnapping Parker before killing him, make them candidates for the death penalty.
Before his death, Parker lived in what neighbors described as a known “drug house” in Denison that is now boarded up, KTEN reported.
“Given his lifestyle, I don't know that it's a surprise, but it is absolutely tragic,” Amy Timberlake, a neighbor of Parker's, told the station.
It is the latest in a string of murders and other violent crimes attributed to the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas—labeled one of the nation’s most violent, racist gangs, operating in and outside of Texas prisons. ABT has been blamed for multiple murders, robberies, arsons and kidnappings, along with extensive narcotics trafficking and other crimes.
In late September, Nicholas Ryan Acree, 33, and Charles James Garrett Jr., 30, both of Fort Worth and both members of ABT, were charged in Mansfield, Texas, with murdering a fellow gang member, Bryan A. Childers, 39, also of Fort Worth. He has not been seen since May 29 when he was reported missing by his family.
Authorities aren’t saying if the new murder cases have any connection with a massive federal prosecution brought two years ago, resulting in guilty pleas and convictions of 73 ranking ABT members in five federal jurisdictions. In federal court in Houston, 36 ABT leaders have pleaded guilty this year.
