Trial scheduled in 2020 capital murder case
Jun. 3—A Royse City woman is facing trial this week on a charge of with capital murder.
Lauren Brooke Bohme has been indicted in connection with the death of a Greenville teenager in September 2020 and has pleaded not guilty.Jury selection is scheduled Monday in the 196th District Court.
Bohme, 20, has been charged with capital murder involving the death of Ismael Rincon, 15, of Greenville.
A separate defendant, Damien Christian Osborn, 21, of Rockwall, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder involving Rincon's death. He has also pleaded not guilty on a separate charge of aggravated assault.Osborn is scheduled for trial on Aug. 7.
Both Osborn's and Bohme's indictments allege they caused the death of a John Doe, identified as Rincon by the Greenville Police Department, on Sept. 30, 2020, by stabbing him with a knife while committing or attempting to commit burglary of a habitation.
The aggravated assault indictment filed against Osborn alleged he used a motor vehicle as a deadly weapon to strike a female victim on the same day.
Greenville police were dispatched at about 12:15 a.m. on the day in question to a reported aggravated assault in the 4200 block of King Street in Greenville.
Rincon was hospitalized due to his injuries and was reported to have died on the night of Nov. 23, 2020.Prosecutors have waived the death penalty should Bohme be convicted.
Bohme faces an automatic sentence of life in prison without parole if found guilty of capital murder. Bohme remains in custody in the Hunt County Detention Center in lieu of $1 million bond on the capital murder charge.
Osborn also remains in custody at the jail, being held in lieu of $750,000 bond on the murder charge and $250,000 bond on the aggravated assault count.
