FORT WORTH -- Ashlea Harris didn’t have an enemy in the world, prosecutors say. But that all changed on a day in August 2014 when she discovered that someone had broken into the American Eagle Outfitters store where she worked in Hulen Mall.
Prosecutor Kevin Rousseau said It was Harris — a 31-year-old assistant manager at the store — who called 911 and alerted corporate officials and the store manager about the theft. And it was Harris, Rousseau said, who looked at the store’s surveillance video and recognized a man she believed was responsible for stealing thousands of dollars from the store’s safe — David Mallory, a store employee and live-in boyfriend of another of the store’s assistant managers, Carter Cervantez.
Cervantez and Mallory were ultimately fired, and Cervantez knew Harris was behind it, Rousseau said.
Investigators believe the couple killed Harris inside her apartment early Nov. 28, 2014, setting her bed and body ablaze and fleeing with her keys. They planned to steal from the store again, this time tens of thousands of dollars collected from Black Friday sales.
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