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From the McKinney Star Courier-Gazette:

The final day of the punishment phase of Kosoul Chanthakoummane’s capital murder trial came to a somber close as members of Sarah Anne Walker’s family testified how her brutal murder left a mark on their families.

The jury heard from two members of Walker’s family before both sides closed their cases. Jackie Mull, Walker’s younger sister, described the phone call she received from a McKinney Police Department official when she learned her sister had been killed. She said she received a call from McKinney PD Capt. Randy Roland, who advised her to pull over if she was driving. She wondered if something happened to her parents, but she eventually realized her sister, Walker, worked in McKinney.
Mull also said Walker loved spending time with her then-4-year-old son, Josh.

“Sarah liked to play with Josh,” Mull said. “He liked to play cars with her. She was also very adventurous. She liked to do fun things like take Josh to Six Flags or the water park.”

Dawn Tate, Randy Tate’s mother and Walker’s mother-in-law, said she feels Josh simply “misses his mom.” Read more »

The Dallas Morning News has a commentary piece on the Sarah Walker case and trial.

“A bizarre murder mystery in Texas!” trumpeted Fox News after Ms. Walker’s body was discovered in a model home at the pricey, squeaky-clean McKinney subdivision where she worked. “Who targeted Sarah Anne Walker, and why? Police are searching for clues and a motive!”…

…Sarah Walker didn’t harbor a dark secret. She had no hidden enemies, no spiteful ex-boyfriend, no stalker nut she had chatted up online. She was just unlucky, about as unlucky as a human being can be.

Her killing was as pointless and petty as any convenience-store stickup and shooting. It’s a less salacious news story than some of us anticipated, but it does not lessen the grief of those who loved her.

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