Man sentenced to life in prison for deadly Collin County carjacking
Man sentenced to life in prison for deadly Collin County carjacking
A Dallas man will spend the rest of his life in prison for the carjacking and murder of a complete stranger in Collin County last year. Detectives gathered a ton of evidence, including a video the murderer posted on social media with the murder weapon.
McKINNEY, Texas - A Dallas man will spend the rest of his life in prison for the carjacking and murder of a complete stranger in Collin County last year.
Detectives gathered a ton of evidence, including a video the murderer posted on social media with the murder weapon.
The Collin County District Attorney's Office believes the evidence in this trial was overwhelming, and it's pleased the jury thought the same thing.
Kyvontre Elmore (Collin County jail)
An Instagram video of 28-year-old Kyvontre Elmore flashing a firearm was posted one hour before he murdered an innocent stranger.
Collin County DA Greg Willis says it was the same firearm used to kill 39-year-old Jose Antonio Acosta Galvan.
"Obviously, he had no remorse about what he did," Willis said. "Those people are scary. Those kind of people don't stop."
Earlier this month, a Collin County jury found Elmore guilty for the January 2023 murder. A judge sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Elmore shot and killed Galvan outside his Dallas apartment and carjacked his truck.
"I guess he wanted the truck, and it didn't matter to him if he had to kill someone to get it," Willis said.
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However, Elmore decided to ditch the truck that same night.
Surveillance video shows Elmore setting the truck on fire in the middle of a Dallas street. He was seen walking away in white clothing. The fire department arrived a few minutes later.
An Instagram message also revealed Elmore was trying to trade the gun hours after the crime.
Dallas detectives learned Elmore bought a scooter from someone in Dallas and then took a Lyft to his girlfriend's apartment in McKinney.
McKinney officers staked out the complex near South McDonald Street and Industrial Boulevard. They captured video of Elmore riding the same scooter outside the apartment.
Plus, Elmore posted a video to his Instagram from inside the complex with the scooter.
A week after the murder, Dallas and McKinney police officers arrested Elmore.
Nearly two years later, a guilty verdict.
"You are a cold-blooded killer in Collin County, and you are going down for life and never getting out," Willis said. "It's terrible if you think about all of Antonio's family. They will never be able to talk to him again or see him again."
Cell phone records also placed Elmore at the murder scene and where the truck was burned.
All of the evidence was presented to the jury over a three-day-long trial.
The jury then took about a day and a half to deliberate and came back with the guilty verdict.
Because this was not a death penalty case, Elmore was automatically sentenced to life in prison after being convicted.