SUGAR LAND, Texas – An execution date has been set for a Sugar Land man on death row for arranging to have some of his family members shot and killed so he could collect a $1 million inheritance.
Bart Whitaker is set to be executed on Feb. 22, 2018.
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Investigators said that on Dec. 10, 2003, Whitaker arranged to make the shooting look like he and his family members interrupted a burglary as they returned home from dinner.
A masked gunman inside the home shot and killed Whitaker's 19-year-old brother, Kevin, in the front room of the house. Then the gunman shot and killed Whitaker's 51-year-old mother, Tricia. The shooter also wounded Whitaker's 54-year-old father, Kent. A bullet hit Whitaker in his arm.
The gunman and a third person in the crime are also in prison, serving sentences.
