BEAUMONT, Texas — A Beaumont man accused of attempting to kill two Beaumont Police officers at the front door of an apartment in July 2022 was found guilty of aggravated assault and sentenced Thursday.
Reginald Guillory, 20, who was charged with two counts of aggravated assault of a peace officer was found guilty Thursday morning by a Jefferson County jury of two lesser charges of aggravated assault.
The punishment phase of Guillory's trial began after a brief recess.
Guillory was sentenced to 25 years on each count but the sentences will run concurrently, meaning they will run at the same time.
He is not ordered to pay a fine and is forbidden from owning a firearm once he completes his prison time
Prosecutors had asked that the court approve an enhanced punishment for Guillory based on a prior felony conviction.
Reginald has a 2022 conviction on a felony charge of obstruction/retaliation, a conviction in 2020 for assault on a public servant and a conviction for theft that began as a charge for aggravated robbery according to prosecutors.
During testimony Thursday afternoon in the punishment phase a nurse testified about being robbed at gunpoint by Guillory in 2018. Guillory was dressed as a security guard when he robbed her in the parking lot of her apartment.
“I’m not playing with you, give me your ******* keys or I’ll shoot you,” Guillory told her according to testimony.
When asked under cross examination by the defense, the nurse acknowledged that she had not known that his initial aggravated robbery charge in her case resulted in Guillory being convicted of misdemeanor theft.
While Guillory was on the stand his attorney asked him if he was currently under federal indictment for being a felon in possession of a firearm, Guillory answered in the affirmative.
When the prosecutor asked Guillory admitted that he had been convicted of threatening to kill a Southeast Texas judge.
The jury began deliberating on Wednesday evening.
Testimony began on Tuesday in Guillory's trial before Judge Raquel West in the 252nd District Court.
Reginald Guillory and Jalon Nixon were both indicted on the charges in July 2022 after police say they attempted to kill two Beaumont officers at the Glen Oaks Apartments in the 500 block of Dowlen Road.
During testimony Wednesday, jury members watched a video of Guillory being interviewed by detective Heather Wilson at the police department on July 5, 2023.
"I had nothing to do with this," he told the detective.
He described at least five people who were at the house the day of the incident and a fight that took place that day, according to court testimony.
On Wednesday, the jury also watched body cam video of officers as they knocked on the door.
The jury could hear officers knock, say that they are the police at least three times before the door opened and one of the officers shouted, "Gun Gun Gun."
Defense Attorney Tom Burbank did not call any witnesses to the stand.
Burbank entered into evidence a certified copy of a federal indictment concerning Guillory into evidence without comment as to why it was entered.
Opening statements began on Tuesday at 1 p.m.
In opening statements, Prosecutor Tommy Coleman told the jury that the two officers went to an apartment complex to help a woman get items from her boyfriend's home.
Coleman says the jury will hear about how the officers knocked on the door and said they are the police. He also says the jury will hear that two times someone in the apartment asked who is it, and each time the officers responded, "It's the police."
The jury will also hear that when the door was opened, the officers were faced with two men who had guns pointed directly at the officers and they heard the click that sounded like the pulling of a trigger, then the door slammed shut, according to Coleman.
Coleman says that the officers got inside the apartment after calling for backup, and once inside they found evidence that one or more people had left by jumping out of a third-story window.
The jury will hear how evidence led them to Guillory as being one of the men who jumped out of the window, according to Coleman.
Coleman told the jury that Guillory will admit to having a gun, but will deny knowing the men at the door were officers and will deny pointing a gun at them.
Coleman say the evidence in the case, including body-worn camera video, will show a "very different story."
Burbank declined to make an opening statement.
Nixon has not yet been tried.
Nixon was arrested by officers and Guillory was arrested two days later after his mother talked him into turning himself.
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