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Leon David DORSEY IV
 
 

 

 

April 4, 1994 - Surveillance cameras captured this photo of the gunman in the slayings of Brad
Linsey and James Armstrong during a robbery of the Blockbuster Video in East Dallas

 

 

Bradley Dale Lindsey, 20, had attended Bryan Adams High School until two months before
he was slain while working at the Blockbuster store. He had dropped out of school to
take his high school equivalency test and work full time to help support his mother.

 

 

Assistant manager James Loyd Armstrong, 26, had been a Blockbuster employee for about
two years. He attended Corsicana High School and Nimitz High School in Irving. "He was
active in a cappella choirs at both schools. He enjoyed singing," his mother said.

 

 

April 5, 1994 - Flowers outside the Blockbuster store honor the victims on the day after
a crime that shocked merchants and patrons.

 

 

Leon David Dorsey IV, in an undated jail photo, was already in prison for an unrelated
murder when he was charged in the Blockbuster killings in September 1998.

 

 

Sept. 18, 1998 - Leon David Dorsey IV was 22-years-old and already in prison for an
unrelated murder when he was charged in the four-year-old Blockbuster case.

 

 

Sept. 18, 1998 - Leon David Dorsey IV talks about his life of crime
during an interview with The Dallas Morning News.

 

 

Sept. 25, 1998 - Leon David Dorsey IV was transferred from prison back to Dallas to stand
trial for the April 1994 murders of two Blockbuster Video store employees.

 

 

May 16, 2000 - Nancy Armstrong, mother of James Armstrong, made a statement to Dorsey
at his trial. "Our son was a gentle man," she told him. "I believe you're an evil, vile creature.
You didn't kill for survival. You killed for pleasure."

 

 

Leon David Dorsey IV

 

 

May 15, 2000 - Leon David Dorsey IV, looks back into the courtroom and talks to one of
his attorneys during his trial. His first trial in the Blockbuster case ended in a mistrial,
but he was later convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death.

 

 

June 12, 2000 - Leon David Dorsey IV in a prison photo after being convicted
and sentenced to death row.

 

 

Leon David Dorsey IV on death row

 

DallasNews.com
 

 
 
 
 
 
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