Star-Telegram
October 23, 2015
A 47-year-old man with a long history of drug convictions now stands accused of fatally stabbing a man in a robbery last month.
Jesse Anderson Petite was being held in the Mansfield jail Friday following his arrest a day earlier on a capital murder warrant.
His bail is set at $300,000.
Petite is accused of robbing and fatally stabbing Jeffrey White.
White, 52, was found dead on his living room couch Sept. 29 in his apartment in the 250 block of Pennsylvania Avenue. His throat had been cut.
Homicide Sgt. Joe Loughman said investigators believe Petite and White were casual acquaintances who had met at a bar not far from White’s apartment on the day of White’s death.