42-year-old who was convicted of murder as a teen arrested in southeast Oak Cliff slaying

A 42-year-old man who was sent to prison for his role in a 1994 slaying has been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting last month in southeast Oak Cliff.

Donny Ray Geter faces a murder charge in the death of Joseph Kemp. He was booked into the Dallas County jail Thursday night.

Dallas police were called about 8:20 p.m. Jan. 5 to the scene of a shooting in the 5000 block of Corrigan Court, near East Ledbetter Drive and Bonnie View Road. Kemp, 39, was taken to a hospital, where he died.

Witnesses told police that someone had come out of a house and shot Kemp, then had barricaded himself inside the home. But when authorities searched the home, no one was inside.

Police did not say how they linked Geter to the shooting.

Geter’s bail had not been set Thursday, and it was unclear whether he had an attorney.

In 1995, Geter pleaded guilty to a murder charge for his role in the August 1994 slaying of 54-year-old Indravadan Patel at his Balch Springs convenience store, court records show.

Police said Geter, 16-year-old Reginald Bernard Johnson and 17-year-old Latoya Nicole Brightmon disabled the store’s surveillance camera, made Patel empty the cash register at gunpoint and fled afterward in his brown Datsun hatchback. Before they left, Johnson shot Patel with a sawed-off .22-caliber rifle.

Geter, who was 15 at the time of the slaying, was certified as an adult and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He was released in 2016, according to Texas Department of Criminal Justice records.

Johnson was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison, where he remains. A murder charge against Brightmon was dismissed, court records indicate.