ELLIS COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News ) – An Ellis County man has learned his fate for killing his friend with a hammer in 2021.
31-year-old Trenton Adams will serve life in prison without parole after jurors found him guilty of capital murder this week in in the death of Jordon Von Hoffman.
The Ellis County District Attorneys office said concerned family and friends found Von Hoffman’s body in a trash can at a property in the 6900 block of Ensign Road in Ennis on March 24.
According to the Dallas County Medical Examiner, Hoffman had been killed by “compression of his neck and blunt force trauma consistent with being hit in the head with a hammer.”
Investigators found a hammer with Hoffman’s DNA along with bloody gloves with Adam’s DNA which linked him to the murder.
Prosecutors said Adams went on the run immediately after the brutal crime yet repeatedly called dispatch to confess to the murder.
He also admitted to the killing on Facebook and falsely claimed Hoffman hurt a child. The Ellis County DA said Adams believed that Von Hoffman and his girlfriend had a sexual encounter.
The DA’s office said Adams stated that “he worships death” and carries out “rites and rituals of Satanic worship, including blood sacrifices,”
Adams spent time in San Marcos and Fort Worth before he was eventually captured in Houston.
“This was an extraordinarily brutal rime,” stated Ellis County DA Ann Montgomery. “I am pleased that justice was served for Jordan and his family. I am also thankful that Trenton Adams will never walk freely in Texas again.”
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