David Conley, Texas killer of 8, including 6 children, gets life without parole

A Texas defendant convicted by a jury Thursday in the 2015 shooting deaths of eight people, including six children, will serve life in prison without parole, according to reports.

The dead included defendant David Conley’s ex-girlfriend Valerie Jackson and her husband Dewayne Jackson, the report said. 

The slain children included Conley’s own 13-year-old son. The man who was killed was the father of the other five children. All of the children had long suffered abuse at the hands of both Conley and Dewayne Jackson, according to authorities.