Texas Man Sentenced To 55 Years For Cutting His Roommate’s Throat
The Texas man charged with the murder of his roommate in League City was sentenced to prison on Friday.
A Galveston County jury sentences 26-year-old Christian Hickman-Staudt to 55 years for the murder of his roommate, League City resident Donald Heard in July 2020.
Hickman-Staudt initially left the state but was arrested in Minnesota in October 2021 and extradited to Texas for trial.
Heard’s mother discovered her son’s body in the bathroom of his home on July 30, 2020.
League City police officers report Heard’s throat had been cut.
Several electronic devices from the home were seized and a forensic examination of the devices led detectives to Hickman-Staudt who was identified by family, friends, and neighbors as a roommate and romantic partner of Heard.
According to detectives, Heard’s last known communication was a Facebook message sent to a friend at 11:51 p.m. on July 23, 2020. At 12:54 a.m. on July 24, 2020, Hickman-Staudt began making multiple calls to his mother, requesting a pick-up and transportation to a bus stop.
The same morning, surveillance footage showed Hickman-Staudt at a gas station near Heard’s home around 1:15 a.m.
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