Dr. Sonnier’s sons’ long-delayed civil lawsuit seeks at least $1 million more than decade after brutal murder-for-hire - Lubbock Lights

Dr. Sonnier’s sons’ long-delayed civil lawsuit seeks at least $1 million more than decade after brutal murder-for-hire - Lubbock Lights

(L-R) Shepard, Sonnier and Dixon More than a decade after their father was brutally slain in a murder-for-hire sparked by a love triangle, Dr. Joseph Sonnier’s sons hope a civil trial scheduled for May could give them $1 million or more. Meanwhile, two of the three bars of silver Dr. Thomas Michael Dixon paid David Shepard to kill Sonnier are no longer stored as evidence in Lubbock County – returned in December 2023 to the Amarillo pawn shop Di…