A Texas Teen Stabbed a Fellow High School Student to Death During Brawl. He Will Spend the Next 10 Years in Prison.

A Texas teenager who fatally stabbed a chap student received nan maximum condemnation for his crime connected June 23.

Caysen Allison, 21, will service 10 years successful situation aft being convicted of criminally negligent homicide successful nan decease of Jose "Joe" Luis Ramirez Jr.

Judge Wade Faulkner handed down that condemnation aft proceeding grounds from schoolhouse unit and relatives of nan unfortunate successful nan 478th Judicial District Court.

Ramirez was conscionable 18 erstwhile he was stabbed by Allison connected May 3, 2022 during a bath brawl astatine Belton High School, according to an apprehension affidavit obtained by PEOPLE.

Allison's lawyer Zachary Boyd said that his client's actions that time were each successful self-defense after he was forced into fighting Ramirez and a group of his friends.

That statement resonated pinch nan jury, who successful April declined to convict Allison of execution aliases manslaughter and alternatively opted for nan lesser of nan 3 charges - criminally negligent homicide.

Allison initially faced a imaginable condemnation of six months to 2 years successful a authorities jailhouse facility, until nan judge sided pinch nan prosecution connected their mobility to amend nan jury's verdict to see a deadly limb stipulation.

The defense tried to conflict nan mobility but were yet unsuccessful. As a result, Allison faced a minimum condemnation of 2 years successful situation and a maximum of 10 without nan anticipation of parole erstwhile he appeared successful tribunal this week.

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Video of nan fatal onslaught was shown successful tribunal during nan trial.

A friend of Ramirez had been filming nan brawl, and captured everything starring up to nan stabbing.

The video allegedly shows Ramirez punching Allison, astatine which constituent Allison swings backmost astatine Ramirez pinch a weapon successful his hand, according to tribunal documents.

Allison past allegedly cornered Ramirez, astatine which constituent nan different teenagers ran from nan bathroom.

School information cameras past captured nan aftermath of nan stabbing, according to tribunal documents.

In that footage, Ramirez is allegedly seen leaving nan bath and collapsing successful nan hallway arsenic humor pools each astir him, according to nan apprehension affidavit.

Allison was arrested later that aforesaid time and confessed to stabbing Ramirez, according to nan affidavit.

He is now successful custody awaiting his situation duty from nan Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and will beryllium fixed in installments for nan 74 days he spent successful jailhouse anterior to posting bail.

Allison's lawyer did not respond to a petition for comment.