CYPRESS, Texas (KTRK) -- A Houston man who allegedly took off his ankle monitor to commit a murder in the Cypress area nearly five years ago received his sentence Thursday.
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Jordan Isaiha Lopez, 22, is set to spend 35 years behind bars for killing 19-year-old Austin Balogun, the Harris County District Attorney's Office said.
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On July 5, 2018, Lopez and another man went to Balogun's house, where they allegedly tied him up during a robbery.
While Lopez held the victim at gunpoint in his bedroom, Harris County deputies said Balogun got ahold of a gun and shot Lopez in the hand.
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That's when Lopez shot and killed Balogun and took off.
The DA's office said that at the time of the murder, Lopez was supposed to be wearing a court-ordered ankle monitor as a condition of bond after being arrested for trying to commit a home invasion six months earlier, but he had taken it off.
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