Man gets 40 years for killing 2 with truck while fleeing Fort Worth police after stabbing
A Fort Worth man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to crashing into and killing two people while fleeing from police after he stabbed his boss in 2021, Tarrant County District Attorney Phil Sorrells said in a news release Tuesday.
Chassity Brooks pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and was sentenced by the court.
On Nov. 10, 2021, Fort Worth police first responded to the stabbing at an apartment at 8601 Las Vegas Court, where they found a man with severe wounds.
A witness told police that she, Brooks and their boss were smoking marijuana in the west Fort Worth apartment that morning and “having a civil discussion when the suspect appeared to become visibly agitated for an unknown reason,” according to an affidavit supporting a warrant for Brooks’ arrest.
“Without warning the suspect pulled out a box cutter-style knife and began cutting the victim’s face and neck with the blade,” the warrant stated.
Brooks then fled the apartment in the victim’s truck before deliberately crashing into the Taz Game Room, at 8751 Camp Bowie West Blvd., according to police.
A man, identified as 45-year-old Jeff Mazurowski, was found unresponsive inside the game room and was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Video footage showed Brooks driving through the front of the building into the back wall, pinning Mazurowski. Brooks then backed up and slammed into the back wall two more times before leaving the scene, the warrant said.
Fort Worth police say a man stabbed someone before killing a man by ramming his truck into a business. Officers say he then hit and killed a woman sitting at a bus stop nearby.
After a chase, police arrested him when SWAT trucks pinned him in.
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Employees of the game room said that the victim and the suspect were both regular customers. One employee told the Star-Telegram that he thought the suspect targeted the business and rammed the building because he was looking for another man he was in a fight with a few days earlier.
When police found the truck and attempted to pull Brooks over, he refused to stop, leading officers on a chase near the 7600 block of Camp Bowie West Blvd.
The stolen vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed when it collided into another truck, causing the suspect to veer off the roadway onto the sidewalk and hit a woman sitting at a bus stop, police said.
The woman, identified as 57-year-old Lailani Snell, was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.
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Following the second fatal hit-and-run, Brooks struck another car parked at a Jiffy Lube on Camp Bowie West. Witnesses said he got out of the vehicle and pretended to be a bystander.
While police were interviewing onlookers, he jumped into a parked white GMC truck and fled. The owner of the vehicle yelled at police that it was being stolen.
Another police chase began, which continued for many miles. Nearly an hour later, a Fort Worth police SWAT team was able to force the vehicle to a stop in a subdivision, but Brooks refused to get out, leading to a standoff, police said.
“As SWAT officers approached the white GMC in a marked SWAT armored vehicle, the suspect drove the white GMC into the SWAT vehicle, injuring a Fort Worth SWAT officer,” the warrant said. Police blocked in the truck and used tear gas to get the suspect out.
This article includes information from the Star-Telegram’s archives.
