Texas ‘post-prom’ party killer caught ‘bragging’ on Instagram about midnight shooting while holding murder weapon isn’t smiling now by Matt Naham

 Texas ‘post-prom’ party killer caught ‘bragging’ on Instagram about midnight shooting while holding murder weapon isn’t smiling now

by Matt Naham

12/22/2023 · 11:26 AM CST

Spencer Orlando Gilbert II, Ja'Den Moblin

Spencer Orlando Gilbert II (left and right) in Johnson County Sheriff’s Office mug shots, Ja’Den Moblin (center) in a GoFundMe photo.

A 20-year-old in Texas who bragged on Instagram about a fatal April shooting and then smiled in a mug shot after he was caught now faces the reality the he will be in state prison for murder until at least 2051, when he would first be eligible for parole.multiple times in the back yard of the residence and that the perpetrator had fled the scene with several other individuals immediately after the shooting occurred,” according to the sheriff’s office.

The case against Gilbert was bolstered not only by “multiple videos showing a fight between several individuals immediately before the shooting,” but also by the then-suspect’s own social media posts on Instagram “while bragging about the shooting” and “holding the murder weapon,” investigators said.

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Gilbert tried to flee to Houston and led local cops on a “brief high-speed chase,” but he crashed the car he was in into a pole — and the vehicle contained “multiple firearms including the weapon used to kill Moblin earlier the same day,” the sheriff’s office added.

Law enforcement suggested the defendant didn’t do himself any favors either when he “later admitted bragging about the incident on Instagram in an interview with Texas Rangers” following his capture in the Houston area.

Johnson County court records reviewed by Law&Crime shed some light on the origins of the unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon offense.