WARNING: This article contains violent and graphic descriptions.
Andre Thomas was the type of kid who could memorize entire Bible stories, who would shoot his eager hand in the air before his Sunday school teacher could even finish her question. He wanted to know how everything worked -- a "tinkerer," his dad called him -- constantly taking things apart just to figure them out.
The fourth of six brothers born to Rochelle Thomas in abject poverty in Sherman, Thomas performed well in school as a young boy despite a difficult home life. Neither Rochelle Thomas, nor his father, Danny Thomas, was around much, so he and his brothers often fended for themselves, spending much of their free time at the Harmony Baptist Church just down the street from their unkempt home, which often lacked electricity.
By the time he was in high school, Thomas was a talented artist, sketching intricate drawings of the cars he planned to design one day. "We definitely saw him doing great things," said Rachel Kallas, Thomas' sister-in-law, "but he definitely didn't go down that road."
Thomas, now 29, veered sharply down a different path, committing a brutal triple murder in 2004 that shook the quiet North Texas city of Sherman to its core and sent him to death row.
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