The Hunt County jury deliberated for more than five hours before acquitting Shaun Lucas of the death of Jonathan Price.
Lucas was an officer in Wolfe City where Price, who had played football for Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, was a city employee, personal trainer and bodybuilder with dreams of starting his own fitness center. Lucas was charged with murdering Price the night of Oct. 3, 2020, and fired from the police force five days later.
Wolfe City, about 70 miles northeast of Dallas and near the Texas-Oklahoma border, has a population of about 1,500 people. It was never clear from witness testimony what triggered the fight between Price and another man. Nicholas Malone testified that he, his brother and Price had been drinking after the funeral of Malone’s father when they decided to go to the convenience store to buy cigarettes. The three lingered at the store when Malone heard glass break, and he saw Price getting into a scuffle with another man.
"My brother and I tried to pull them apart," Malone said, adding that the argument went on "for a few seconds" before the two were pulled apart, and everyone seemed to calm down before Lucas arrived. When Lucas, who is white, answered the report of the fight, Price greeted him with an outstretched hand and an apology for the broken glass. Lucas decided Price was drunk and tried to detain him, but Price resisted. Lucas used a stun gun when Price approached, then shot Price when he reached for the stun gun, according to a police affidavit.
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