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Curtis Jones, 29,
completed his sentence at the medium security South Bay
Correctional Institution in South Florida, according to records
in the state Department of Corrections.
Jones was convicted in 1999 of second-degree murder in Brevard
County and sentenced to 18 years in the shooting of his father's
girlfriend, Sonya Speight.
He and his older sister, Catherine, who also was convicted,
claimed they had been sexually abused by a male relative in the
house. But they were not believed even after child welfare
investigators found evidence of abuse, the local Florida Today
newspaper reported.
The two children intended to also kill their father and the male
relative but panicked.
The newspaper said Jones became the nation's youngest convicted
murderer when he and Catherine entered guilty pleas in a deal to
spare them potential life sentences.
Catherine Jones, now 30, is set to be released on Saturday from
the female annex of Lowell Correctional Institution in Ocala,
according to state prison records.
Jones' lawyer, Alan Landman of Melbourne, did not immediately
return a call for comment. He previously told the local Florida
Today newspaper that neither he nor Curtis Jones would make a
statement.
State records indicate Jones planned upon release to move to an
apartment in Titusville. Florida Today reported that he has
become an ordained minister.
(Reporting by Barbara Liston; Editing by Frank McGurty and
Sandra Maler)
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