Jury convicts Lawton man of shooting into a home

On Monday, jury selection began and by Tuesday afternoon they’d made a decision on the case of a Lawton man accused of shooting into an occupied home.

Guilty on four counts was their decision.

Christopher Adam East, a.k.a. “D-Town,” “Dallas,” and/or “D-Boy,” 33, was found guilty in Chief District Judge Grant Sheperd’s courtroom for felony counts of discharging a firearm into a dwelling, use of a vehicle in the discharge of a weapon, possession of a firearm after two former felony convictions, as well as a misdemeanor count of reckless conduct with a firearm, records indicate.

The jury recommended East serve 10 years in prison for the discharging a firearm count, 25 years for the use of a vehicle count and 10 years for the possession of a firearm count, as well as six months in the Comanche County Detention Center for the misdemeanor count.

All sentences are to run concurrently except for the possession of a firearm charge which will be served following the others. The jurors weren’t made aware of East’s prior convictions before rendering judgment and had to determine a verdict for this charge and recommend a sentence afterwards.

The jury found East guilty of shooting into a mobile home at 601 NE Flower Mound Road the night of Feb. 1, 2021. No one was injured from the gunfire.

After bonding out of jail on the charges on Jan. 24, 2022, East was arrested again on May 12, 2023, after he was charged in a separate case with felony charges of endangering others while eluding police, driving under the influence — great bodily injury, causing a wreck without a valid driver’s license, and misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence of alcohol, transporting an open container and possession of marijuana, records indicate.

For these charges, East is scheduled to stand trial during the November jury trial docket.

East has prior convictions in Texas: June 2009, Henderson County, burglary of habitation; and October 2009, Rusk County, burglary of habitation, according to records.