The punishment phase starts today after a jury found Tony Earls Jr. guilty of manslaughter in the 2022 shooting death of 9-year-old Arlene Alvarez.

You can stream the sentencing phase live in the video above.

The case, which has been closely followed across Houston, centered on whether Earls acted recklessly when he fired into a pickup truck he believed was connected to a robbery.

RECAP: Jury finds Tony Earls guilty of manslaughter in shooting death of 9-year-old Arlene Alvarez

Earls told police he had just been robbed at an ATM and thought the Alvarez family’s truck matched the getaway vehicle. The 9-year-old was riding in the truck with her family when she was shot and killed.

The defense argued that Earls made a “mistake of fact” and that he genuinely believed the truck contai

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