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Statesman
November 29, 2014
The Williamson County sheriff’s office has charged two people with capital murder in the death of Jerrod Stanford in Round Rock in September.
Da Ryan Tarrell Simms, 21, and Lindsey Taylor Hanks, 22, were both charged Nov. 20, police said Monday. Stanford, 33, was last seen alive at his home Sept. 5.
Austin police learned Stanford had been killed after a detective interviewed a Travis County Jail inmate on Sept. 16 who said Hanks had told him that her “brother” had killed a man at 210 Chandler Crossing Trail in Round Rock, an arrest warrant affidavit said.
The Williamson County sheriff’s office found Stanford dead later that day inside his house with two gunshot wounds. A detective also found a fingerprint near Stanford’s body that was later identified as Simms’, the affidavit said.
Simms was arrested on unrelated charges in Austin but he had one of Stanford’s stolen firearms, as well as a box of 380 ammunition, that matched the bullets used in the killing, according to the document. Simms initially told a detective that when he saw Stanford, the victim was already dead, the affidavit said.
An inmate at the Williamson County Jail later told an investigator that Simms met with him in Austin and said he shot Stanford, the document said.
The inmate said Simms showed him guns, credit cards and a driver’s license all belonging to the victim, the affidavit said. A different inmate at the Williamson County Jail said Simms told him that he had shot a man during a robbery, the affidavit said.
Simms told the inmate he had Hanks, who is a prostitute, make an appointment with Stanford, the document said. After Hanks, who had previously met Stanford, went inside the house, Simms said he followed with his brother and hit Stanford on the side of his head, said the affidavit.
Simms said they “had to shoot the guy because he started fighting,” it said.
Another detective spoke to a friend of Hanks’ who said Hanks confessed to being with Simms when Simms shot Stanford, according to the document.
Simms, who was booked into the Williamson County Jail on Oct. 13, was being held at the jail Monday with no bail set, according to court records. He also has three previous charges against him in connection Stanford’s death — tampering with evidence, failure to report a felony and theft from a corpse.
Hanks was being held in the Travis County Jail on Monday.
Stanford, a Lubbock native, was an operating consultant for an oil company, according to his obituary.
