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TULARE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A 23-year-old volition beryllium spending the remainder of his beingness successful situation aft luring a Tulare antheral to his death.
On Friday, the Tulare County Superior Court sentenced 23-year-old James Myron Mitchell, of Tipton, to beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole positive 25 years-to-life for the first-degree execution of John White III.
Shortly earlier 2 a.m. connected July 13, 2023, Mitchell was extracurricular White's location erstwhile helium messaged him to travel outside. After walking out, the DA says Mitchell changeable White with a firearm from 90 feet away.
By the clip officers arrived, White was dead, and Mitchell was obscurity to beryllium found.
James Mitchell, 23 (image provided by the Tulare County Sheriff's Office)Mitchell was located and arrested by U.S. Marshals adjacent Chattanooga, Tennessee, successful aboriginal January 2024, and was extradited to California in April of that year.
At proceedings connected Sept. 3, 2025, a assemblage convicted Mitchell of first-degree murder with the peculiar allegations that helium committed the execution portion lying successful hold and that helium personally discharged a firearm, causing death.
