Lindale Man Gets Two Life Sentences

David Joshua Reed

A Lindale man charged with Capital Murder of Multiple Persons has reached a plea bargain with prosecutors who may have saved him from a death sentence. Forty-one-year-old David Joshua Reed pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of murder for using his pickup to kill his 23-year-old ex-girlfriend Shelby Duarte of Edgewood and her friend, 43-year-old Timothy Nelson of Lindale. They gave Reed two sentences of Life In Prison, served concurrently.