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Another picked up in shooting investigation
Published October 23, 2009
SEGUIN — Police made a fourth arrest Thursday evening in connection with last Friday’s shooting incident that resulted in the death of a Waelder man — bringing to five the total number of people in custody with more arrests expected.
Police Chief Kevin Kelso said officers seeking three men in connection with the Friday night confrontation and shooting obtained additional warrants for the arrests of three other individuals believed involved in the altercation in which Garland Craig Taylor, 20, was shot in the head.
Taylor, who has family in Seguin, died Monday night at University Hospital of injuries sustained in the incident, which occurred in the 900 block of Anderson Street.
At about 6 p.m. Thursday, David Buitron Jr., 37, of Seguin was arrested and booked on allegations of engaging in organized criminal activity and aggravated assault. Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace Darrell Hunter set bail for Buitron at $250,000.
In the days since the shooting, Seguin detectives have worked to identify and locate a number of young men believed involved in the incident.
Kelso, who believes the incident was gang-related, said it’s part of an effort to solve the shooting case and stem off potential retaliation.
On Tuesday, Darrell Sheffield, 22, Gregory W. Popham, 19, and Timothy Dailey, 18, were taken into custody by police officers, district attorney’s and sheriff’s investigators on allegations of engaging in organized criminal activity with the intent to commit aggravated assault and booked into county jail.
Hunter, a former SPD officer, set bail on each at $150,000 and all three remained in county jail Thursday.
Wednesday, a 16-year-old Seguin boy was ordered detained in connection with the same incident. No one has been charged with shooting Taylor, police say.
The warrants obtained Thursday will levy two allegations against each suspect — engaging in organized criminal activity and aggravated assault in connection with the dispute that led to the shooting and not the shooting itself.
Police have not said who is believed to have committed the shooting.
On Wednesday, Kelso announced that the investigation had revealed the incident was probably a confrontation between a chapter of the 74 Hoover Crips criminal street gang and another group police haven’t publicly identified. On Guadalupe County’s judicial records Web site, Sheffield, who is from Seguin, is listed having an alias of “Crips.”
Investigation continues. If proved at trial, the offense of engaging in organized criminal activity and aggravated assault are first-degree felonies punishable by five to 99 years in state prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
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