'He was set up': Man used dating app to lure 2 men on separate days to meet up with him, then shot and killed them both

A antheral successful Texas volition walk the large bulk of his beingness successful a situation compartment for utilizing a dating app to lure men into a trap and past sidesplitting them.

Jer Auntey Pleasant, 25, was sentenced connected Friday to 4 50-year sentences successful situation for the murders of 54-year-old Larry Wilson and 22-year-old Joseph West, arsenic good arsenic for aggravated robbery and aggravated intersexual battle of a child, the Bexar County Criminal District Attorney's Office said.

All the sentences are acceptable to tally astatine the aforesaid time.

Pleasant's crimes began successful March 2022, erstwhile helium met a unfortunate done Grindr, which brands itself arsenic "the world's largest societal networking app" for the LGBTQ community. When they met up, Pleasant "shot the unfortunate during a robbery attempt," the DA's bureau said.

In July of that year, Pleasant sexually assaulted a 13-year-old child, with DNA grounds identifying him arsenic the perpetrator, the prosecutorial bureau added.

Authorities suggested that the now-sentenced suspect had a modus operandi that helium carried implicit into 2023.

"On 2 consecutive days successful April 2023, Pleasant committed 2 abstracted murders," the DA's bureau said.

Under the sanction "Derek" connected Grindr, Pleasant had been chatting with Wilson, and helium arranged for the 2 of them to conscionable astatine the Banyan Tree Apartments successful San Antonio, section NBC and The CW affiliate WOAI reported.

On April 14, 2023, they met, and Pleasant fatally changeable Wilson.

"The pursuing day, April 15, West was discovered successful his flat with a fatal gunshot coiled to the head," the DA's bureau said. "Key evidence, including fingerprints matching Pleasant were recovered astatine some transgression scenes, with ballistics confirming that the aforesaid firearm was used, allowing section authorities to rapidly link and lick some cases."

One of the applicable pieces of grounds astatine some transgression scenes was Pleasant's fingerprint connected condom wrappers, according to WOAI.

"I consciousness successful my bosom helium was acceptable up," Larry Wilson's brother, Johnny Wilson, told section CBS affiliate KENS the period of the murders. "Them dating apps nowadays. You've got to ticker out. It tin beryllium setups."