Offender Information

Name: Andrus, Terence
TDCJ Number: 999578
Date of Birth: 03/26/1988
Date Received: 11/19/2012
Age (when Received): 24
Education Level (Highest Grade Completed): 10
Date of Offense: 10/15/2008
Age (at the time of Offense): 20
County; Fort Bend
Race: Black
Gender: Male
Hair Color: Black
Heigh: t5'10"
Weight: 215
Eye Color: Brown
Native County: Harris
Native State: Texas

Prior Occupation
General Laborer

Prior Prison Record
#1373532 (received from TYC) with an offense of Criminal Solicitation to Commit Aggravated Robbery out of Harris County; discharged upon expiration of sentence to Harris County on February 3, 2008.

Summary of Incident

Subject approached the female victim in a Kroger parking lot and was shot in the head with a 380 semi-automatic pistol. Subject approached the male victim, and after a struggle, shot him once in the head. Both victims died as a result of their injuries. Subject fled the scene on foot.

Co-Defendants
None

Race and Gender of Victim
One Asian female and one Hispanic male.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Killer sentenced to die for two murders in 2008

ABClocal.go.com

November 16, 2012

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A Houston man received the death penalty Wednesday in the 240th District Court for two murders in 2008.

Judge Thomas Culver III, presiding judge, delivered the sentence to Terence Andrus, 24, of Houston who was found guilty in the shooting deaths of Avelino Diaz and Kim Bui in a Kroger parking lot on Highway 6 in Fort Bend County.

Just after midnight on October 15, 2008, Fort Bend County Sheriff's deputies were called to the scene of two shooting cases in the parking lot of a Kroger on Highway 6 in the Houston area.

In the first case, a couple stopped to pick up some milk at the Kroger. Norma Diaz entered the store while her husband, Avelino, waited in their vehicle outside. Avelino Diaz was approached by Andrus, who had intentions of stealing the couple's vehicle. Andrus shot Diaz in the head. He died of his wound on October 18, 2008 at Memorial Hermann Hospital - The Medical Center. Andrus walked away from that scene.

At about the same time, Steve and Kim Bui entered the south parking lot of the Kroger store. Andrus approached the vehicle and Steve Bui, who was driving, stopped to see what he wanted. Andrus reached for the door, telling the couple to get out. Steve Bui saw the gun and sped away. At that time, Andrus fired multiple times with one bullet hitting Kim Bui in the head.

Steve Bui also suffered a wound in his back, but managed to drive his wife directly to West Houston Hospital where she died from the gunshot wound.

Sheriff's Office detectives canvassed the area and eventually found a resident whose video revealed where Andrus stashed his weapon. Andrus, who was on foot, had walked to his apartment after the murders.

From that initial video, detectives began studying other videotapes from businesses in the area. They sent out a Crime Stoppers bulletin showing a suspect they believed was involved in the shootings.

A Crime Stoppers tip later in October 2008 led to the identification of Andrus as a person of interest. He fled to New Orleans, La., when the Crime Stoppers information was aired.

Fort Bend County detectives went to New Orleans, and on November 7, Andrus was initially arrested by New Orleans Police officers on a Harris County aggravated robbery warrant. On his way back to Houston, Andrus confessed to the murders committed on October 15.

Man sentenced to death in Fort Bend County killings

By Erin Mulvaney - The Houston Chronicle

November 14, 2012

A Fort Bend County jury sentenced a man to death Wednesday for the 2008 deaths of two Sugar Land residents in what appeared to be attempted carjackings, court officials confirmed.

The jury convicted Terence Tramaine Andrus, 24, of capital murder in the deaths of Avelino Saucedo Diaz and Kim Phuong Bui. The two were shot to death Oct. 15, 2008 in the parking lot of a Kroger grocery in the 9300 block of Texas 6.

Andrus was arrested in New Orleans on Nov. 7 of that year on an unrelated aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon charge. Investigators said he confessed to the shootings.

His trial began Thursday.

Norma Diaz testified her 31-year-old husband was shot in the parking lot, while he waited for her to run into the grocery to buy a carton of milk. Steve Bui and his 49-year-old wife were driving to the grocery to buy items to bake a cake when a man shot at their car three times. She died on the way to the hospital, her husband told the court.

During the punishment phase of the trial, witnesses testified of Andrus' violent history, Fort Bend County prosecutor Thomas Pfeiffer said. Three Harris County Sheriff's Office deputies, two Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office deputies and several victims of aggravated robbery testified that Andrus had assaulted them, he said.

"One of the things the jury looks at is whether he will be a continuing threat to society," Pfeiffer said. "It was an easy answer that he would be."

Defense attorney James "Sid" Crowley said Andrus admitted to being on PCP and cocaine at the time of the shooting. Crowley hoped the jury would come back with a life sentence, rather than the death penalty.

He said jurors heard testimony that Andrus had a somewhat dysfunctional home life. Andrus' mother and father testified during the trial, Crowley said.

"I'm not surprised given all the evidence available to the state," Crowley said of the jury's decision. "It was pretty overwhelming."

Death penalty verdicts are automatically appealed.

Terence Andrus

Terence Andrus

Terence Andrus