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

A 42-year-old man sent to prison for his role in a 1994 slaying was 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.

According to an arrest-warrant affidavit, Kemp, 39, had driven a woman to the home to visit a friend, but then became upset and started running when a man came out of the house. The man fired a handgun at Kemp, striking him multiple times, then fled.

Kemp was taken to Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, where he died.

Geter’s bail was set at $1 million, 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, forced Patel empty the cash register at gunpoint and then fled 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 to stand trial 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.