TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Name:  Broxton, Eugene

TDCJ Number:  999044

Date of Birth:  02/27/1955

Date Received:  09/18/1992

Age (when Received):  37

Education Level (Highest Grade Completed):  

Date of Offense:  05/16/1991

Age (at the time of Offense):  36

County:  Harris

Race:  Black

Gender:  Male

Hair Color:  Black

Height (in Feet and Inches):  5′ 8″

Weight (in Pounds):  195

Eye Color:  Brown

Native County:  Harris

Native State:  Louisiana

Prior Occupation:  Mechanic

Prior Prison Record:  TDCJ #423154, received 06/03/1986, Harris County, 13 years agg. robbery and attempt to commit capital murder. Paroled to Harris County, 10/10/1990.

Summary of Incident:  Convicted in the May 1991 robbery and murder of Sheila Dockens of Louisiana. Dockens and her husband, Waylon Dockens, were inside a Channelview motel room when Broxton gained entrance by pretending to be with the motel's management. He pistol-whipped the couple, bound Sheila Dockens' hands and feet, and shot her in the chest. Her husband, a Brown & Root worker, survived a shot to the head and later identified Broxton as the assailant. Broxton is charged with capital murder in four other cases that occurred in April and May 1991.

Co-Defendants:  None

Race and Gender of Victim:  Unknown