LA MARQUE, Texas — A back-seat passenger accused of shooting the driver of the car in the head as they traveled along the interstate was indicted on a murder charge, authorities said Thursday.
Bond for Kenneth Wayne Henderson, 36, was set at $250,000 on a murder charge, stemming from the Nov. 1 shooting of Michael Ray Graves.
La Marque police arrived in the 1600 block of Interstate 45 North to investigate a crash after a car hit a Texas Department of Public Safety traffic camera pole.
Officers found Graves, 32, of Texas City, dead at the scene of two gunshot wounds to the head. Front-seat passenger Amethyst Diane Norwood, of Angleton, was shot once, police said.
Henderson suffered a broken arm and he was taken to the University of Texas Medical Branch and jailed the same day on an aggravated assault charge, police said.
Henderson was accused of having an argument and pulling a .38-caliber revolver, police said.
Henderson’s bail totals $500,000, but he is unable to bond from the Galveston County Jail because of a parole board warrant, authorities said.
Henderson was indicted Wednesday on the murder charge. An indictment is not a guilty verdict. It means the jury heard enough evidence to send the case to trial.
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