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5 days ago | 
kdhnews.com | Emily Hilley-Sierzchula
Eight men and six women were picked in February to decide whether an ex-Fort Cavazos soldier shot and killed his ex-girlfriend, who also was a soldier, on a Killeen street almost four years ago. The same panel of Bell County residents, which includes two alternate jurors, will reconvene on July 21, for the continuation of the trial that was halted by an appellate court. Jurors were sent home on Feb. 10, pending a decision by the justices.
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5 days ago | 
kdhnews.com | Emily Hilley-Sierzchula
By By Emily Hilley-Sierzchula | Herald correspondent A man from Killeen was indicted by a Coryell County grand jury after the man's girlfriend told police that he had choked her and assaulted her with a pistol. Rodney John Edwin, 55, was indicted in May on a first-degree felony charge of aggravated kidnapping and a third-degree felony charge of assault of a family member by choking or impeding breath. Edwin was not being held in the Coryell County Jail on Monday.
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6 days ago | 
kdhnews.com | Emily Hilley-Sierzchula
BELTON - The parents of the 3-year-old girl who was affectionately known as "Moochie" both have been mourning their loss for years; but only the mother was facing up to 20 years in prison on a manslaughter charge because the child was unsecured when a crash occurred in 2023. Coppeas Cove resident Selena Martinez, 29, was indicted on Aug. 28, 2024, on the second-degree felony charge. She pleaded guilty on April 9.
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1 week ago | 
kdhnews.com | Emily Hilley-Sierzchula
By By Emily Hilley-Sierzchula | Herald correspondent A Bell County grand jury indicted John Gitau Mwangi of Killeen on a first-degree felony charge of murder. He is accused of shooting and killing his wife, 37-year-old Esther Gitau, on Feb. 21. Both were active-duty soldiers stationed at Fort Cavazos, according to media reports. Mwangi was booked into the Bell County Jail on Feb. 23, and he was being held without bond on Wednesday. The indictment occurred May 21.
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1 week ago | 
kdhnews.com | Emily Hilley-Sierzchula
A Bell County grand jury recently indicted a 16-year-old girl on a murder charge after police say she fatally shot another teenager at a house in Killeen. Joelle Fulsom of Harker Heights was 15 years old on July 15, 2024, when police said she shot and killed 17-year-old Tristen Hochstetler at a house in Killeen.
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1 week ago | 
kdhnews.com | Emily Hilley-Sierzchula
By By Emily Hilley-Sierzchula | Herald correspondent Killeen police say that a vehicle was used as a deadly weapon last year when a woman was accused of driving toward another woman after an argument between two pairs of friends. On Wednesday, a Bell County grand jury indicted Jasmine Nicole Perry, 32, of Harker Heights, on a second-degree felony charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Perry was released from the Bell County Jail after posting a bond of $25,000, on Aug.
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1 week ago | 
tdtnews.com | Emily Hilley-Sierzchula
BELTON — The Belton man convicted by a jury in April of criminally negligent homicide will face a maximum of 10 years, not two, in prison after he fatally stabbed a fellow student during a fight at Belton High School just over three years ago. Caysen Tyler Allison, 21, stabbed Jose “Joe” Ramirez during a fight in the boys bathroom at the school on May 3, 2022. Both were students, ages 18, at the time of the fight.
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1 week ago | 
kdhnews.com | Emily Hilley-Sierzchula
By EMILY HILLEY-SIERZCHULA | FME NEWS SERVICE BELTON - The Belton man convicted by a jury in April of criminally negligent homicide will face a maximum of 10 years, not two, in prison after he fatally stabbed a fellow student during a fight at Belton High School just over three years ago. Caysen Tyler Allison, 21, stabbed Jose "Joe" Ramirez during a fight in the boys bathroom at the school on May 3, 2022. Both were students, ages 18, at the time of the fight.
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1 week ago | 
kdhnews.com | Emily Hilley-Sierzchula
By By Emily Hilley-Sierzchula | Herald correspondent The Belton man who was convicted by a jury in April of criminally negligent homicide will be facing a maximum of 10 years, not two, after he fatally stabbed an 18-year-old during a fight at Belton High School just over three years ago. Caysen Tyler Allison, 21, stabbed Jose "Joe" Ramirez during the fight in the boys' bathroom on May 3, 2022. Both were students at the school at the time of the fight.
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1 week ago | 
kdhnews.com | Emily Hilley-Sierzchula
BELTON - An unusually empty courtroom was the backdrop for a sentencing hearing on Friday afternoon when a Killeen man was found guilty of accidentally shooting his brother on Christmas Day of 2023. Jeremiah Lafredrick Matthews, 21, was indicted on Feb. 28, 2024, on a charge of manslaughter.
