Kingwood Man Convicted of Killing Humble Weed Dealer

Kingwood, TX -- It might have been over a woman. It might have been because the quarters were more like eighths, whatever prompted Hunter Ryan Hamilton Woods to put a round in the back of Barrett Shirley that hot September night in 2014 will remain a point of contention.

What isn't debated is that Woods did shoot Shirley. At around 1 a.m. on the night of Sept. 5, 2014, Woods drove over to a house in Humble where Shirley was crashing.

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Multiple witnesses testified at Woods' two-day trial that Woods went over to the house to score some pot. One witness, Ryan Doolin, told the jury that Woods came in the house for a minute.

Woods claimed he was there to tell Shirley to stop talking to his girl. Whatever the reason for Woods' visit when he walked outside of the house he wasn't happy.

Doolin testified that Shirley followed Woods out to his car and that he followed Shirley. Woods got in the car and Shirley started talking to the people in the car.

The conversation became animated, hostile even. Shirley turned to walk away. Wodds pulled a gun.

One shot, right in the back. Shirley staggered to the door of the house where he was met by the friend who was letting him crash there, Brett Stillwell. Stillwell testified that Shirley told him he'd been shot.

Stillwell called 911 and started performing CPR, but it didn't help. By the time the paramedics got there Shirley was dead.

Woods went back to his girlfriend's place and told her what happened. That he'd gunned Shirley down. HPD homicide detectives zeroed in on Woods pretty early on, it helped that the witnesses and the shooter all knew each other.

The cops got a warrant to search Woods' place and brought him in for questioning. Woods confessed to the shooting, but claimed that it was jealousy not greed that prompted him to the pull the trigger.

The jury didn't particularly care about Woods' motivation when they came back with the guilty verdict.