Gang member Erick Davila set to be executed in hours over killing of young girl and grandmother at birthday party

A former gang member sentenced to death for killing a five-year-old girl and her grandmother when he opened fire at a child’s birthday party is to be executed in Texas. Erick Davila has spent nine years on death row after used a laser-sighted semi-automatic rifle to spray bullets at about 20 people — more than a dozen of them children — in apparent retaliation for an attack by one of the people attending the party. Annette Stevenson, 48, and her granddaughter, Queshawn Stevenson, were killed in the 6 April 2008 attack and four others were wounded, including the girl celebrating her ninth birthday.

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