TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Name:  Porter, James

TDCJ Number:  999378

Date of Birth:  8/15/1971

Date Received:  3/14/2001

Age (when Received):  29

Education Level (Highest Grade Completed):  7

Date of Offense:  5/28/2000

Age (at the time of offense):  28

County:  Bowie

Race:  White

Gender:  Male

Hair Color:  Brown

Height (in Feet and Inches):  5′ 9″

Weight (in Pounds):  131

Eye Color:  Blue

Native County:  Tarrant

Native State:  Texas

Prior Occupation:  carpenter, laborer

Prior Prison Record:  #589124 on a 5 year sentence from Denton County for one count of burglary of a building. Released on parole to Denton County. Returned from Parole on 6/28/1995 as #712863 on a 45 year sentence from Denton County for one count of murder with a deadly weapon (involves Porter shooting a 40 year old white male transient two times in the head with a .25 caliber pistol and dumping the victim's body in a water well). On 1/14/1998, new commitments received from Madison County on a 5 year sentence for one count of possession of a deadly weapon in a penal institution (homemade knife).

Summary of Incident:  On 5/28/2000, Porter, an inmate serving time for murder with a deadly weapon, entered a dayroom of the Telford Unit in Bowie County. He fatally assaulted an adult hispanic male inmate with a rock inside a pillowcase, a homemade knife, and his boots.

Co-Defendants:  None

Race and Gender of Victim:  Hispanic Male