HOUSTON -- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the conviction of a man on death row for a Houston shooting rampage almost 30 years ago that killed three people and maimed another. Max Alexander Soffar, now 53, spent 23 years on death row before a federal appeals court threw out his conviction in 2004 because of inadequate counsel. He was retried in 2006 and convicted again for killing 17-year-old Arden Alane Felsher. She was shot to death July 1980 when Soffar was robbing 25-year-old Stephen Allen Sims, an assistant manager at the Fair Lanes Windfern Bowling Center in Houston. Sims and Felsher’s 17-year-old boyfriend, Tommy Lee Temple, also were killed. Eighteen-year-old Gregory George Garner was shot in the head, lost his left eye, but survived to testify against Soffar.
